Begets Quotes

• Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Hate

  "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.

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• Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Loss, Ideas, Decision

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Violence, Power Of Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.97, Beacon Press

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• There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Mean, Demand

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• For kindness begets kindness evermore,
  But he from whose mind fades the memory
  Of benefits, noble is he no more.

  Sophocles

  Kindness, Mind, Noble

  "Ajax". Play by Sophocles, Lines 522-524,

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• It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Work, Greatest Wealth, Energy

  "Madame Sarah". Book by Cornelia Otis Skinner, p. xvi, 1966.

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• And whoever forces himself to love anybody
  begets a murderer in his own body.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Body, Force

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

  Ben Chestnut

  Creativity, Innovation, Profit

  Twitter post from May 26, 2015

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• None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Motivation, Inspiration, Leader

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• To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered with our own memories. Remember that, as in any pool, when we cast one pebble we will see many, many concentric circles. One memory begets another and then another, building into stories.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Wall, Memories, Circles

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• The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

  Tom Shadyac

  Violent Acts, Law, Safe

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• For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Children, Father

  John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (2010). “The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert”, p.330, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Gold, Use

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will”, p.184, Classic Books Company

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• One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

  Jeff Cooper

  Heart, Gun, Men

  "Cooper Vs. Terrorism" by Jeff Cooper, www.sightm1911.com.

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• Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Business, Children

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• Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

  Camryn Manheim

  Acceptance, Self, Giving

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• Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

  Charles Dickens

  May, Oppression

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• The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

  Blaise Pascal

  Marriage, Love Is, Married

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• We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Power Of Love, Force

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.97, Beacon Press

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• Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.

  Enoch

  Children, Men, Wife

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• When you start using more expensive cameras, everything around it gets more expensive, which is something we hadn't necessarily taken into account beforehand. Your lighting package gets way more expensive, and then coloring it is going to be more expensive. So I think all of that will essentially be cushioning our camera package. Budgets beget budgets, and expenses beget expenses.

  Katie Aselton

  Taken, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

  Theresa Villiers

  Art, Passion, Love Is

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• Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Love, Religious, Hatred

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• Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.

  James Cash Penney

  Trust No One, Honor, Satisfaction

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• What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, University of Georgia Press

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