Quotes with makes

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  • Albert Einstein But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bono But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Lord George Byron But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Democritus By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
    Democritus
    Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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  • Solomon Schechter By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Simone Signoret Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!
    Simone Signoret
    French actress (ps. of Simone Kaminker) (1921 - 1985)
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  • Jacques Delille Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
    Jacques Delille
    French author (1738 - 1813)
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  • Richard Marcinko Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.
    Richard Marcinko
    American Navy officer and Vietnam War veteran (1940 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
    Speech Democracy and Education (1896)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bette Midler Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Karl Kraus Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bobby Farrelly Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • James Russell Lowell Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Rose Macaulay Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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