Quotes with make-believe

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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Annie Leibovitz A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Mary Baker Eddy A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Francis Bacon A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Anna Held A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • James Thurber A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Karl Kraus A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • John F. Kennedy A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Herbert Hoover About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Alexander Pope Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
    Letter to Jonathan Swift (14 december 1725)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Elizabeth Ashley Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
    Elizabeth Ashley
    American actress of theatre, film, and television (1939 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Ching Ning Chu Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
    Ching Ning Chu
    Chinese-American business consultant
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  • Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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