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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
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Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Each generation produces its squad of ''moderns'' with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
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Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
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