Quotes with making

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  • George Moore Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Aristotle The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Voltaire The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Napoleon Hill The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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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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  • Booker T. Washington To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
    Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Thomas Gray Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Hitopadesa When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Brit Morin Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley ...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Enid Bagnold A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Butler A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Washington Irving A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • William Shenstone A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Boy George A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Ben Schnetzer A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Bill Viola A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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