Quotes with make-shift

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  • Ellen Glasgow Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Virginia Woolf Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Alvar Aalto Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
    Alvar Aalto
    Finnish architect and designer (1898 - 1976)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • George Santayana Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • François Fénelon Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Bobby Hull Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night's entertainment.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Bill Gates Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
    Source: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Now, you have to tighten your belts, because we, your leaders, mis-spent your hard-earned money. Know what would make tightening my belt a little easier? If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck.
    Source: Rant in E-Minor
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Benjamin Millepied Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Robert Doisneau Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
    Robert Doisneau
    French photographer (1912 - 1994)
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  • Terence Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Boris Spassky Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Ben Jonson O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Molière Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Charles Sawyer Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
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  • Arnold Bennett Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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