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  • Henry David Thoreau The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph Addison There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Voltaire Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Graham Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
    The Intelligent Investor Ch. 7, Portfolio Policy: The Positive Side, p. 75
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Alcuin of York What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Horace What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Helen Rowland A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Will Rogers A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Francoise Sagan A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Bharati Mukherjee A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
    Jasmine (2007) 12
    Bharati Mukherjee
    Indian American writer and professor (1940 - 2017)
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  • Barack Obama A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ann Plato A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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  • John Florio A good husband makes a good wife.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Blake Anderson A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Ann Druyan A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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