Quotes with makes

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  • Carlos Castaneda A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Stevie Smith A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • James Joyce A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • D.B.C. Pierre A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
    Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It
    D.B.C. Pierre
    Australian writer (ps. by Peter Warren Finlay) (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one
    Goethe's Works (1832)
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Max Lerner A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Anne Bradstreet A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Rob Cella A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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