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• Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Halloween, Racing, Scare

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.

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• A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

  Augustine Birrell

  Library, May, Affection

  Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

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• The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.

  Henry R. Towne

  Science, Old Things, Cost

  "Industrial Engineering : An Address Delivered" by Henry R. Towne, www.stamfordhistory.org. February 24th, 1905.

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• So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

  Anthony Mackie

  Opportunity, Long, Preparation

  "Actor Anthony Mackie". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 3, 2011.

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

  George Whitefield

  Children, Men, Reason Why

  "George Whitefields's Journals".

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• Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

  Simon Sinek

  Optimism, Complaining, Complaints

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2010

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• Love begets glory,Work begets story.LOVED WORK Begets A Story of Glory!

  Sujit Lalwani

  Love Is, Stories, Glory

  Sujit Lalwani (2014). “Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally...”, p.19, Partridge Publishing

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• In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Opportunity, Action

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• Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kindness, Gold, Wages

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• Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

  Dale Carnegie

  Self, Worry, Decision

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “The Essential Dale Carnegie: Curated Wisdom from 3 Bestselling Books”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Cutting, Men

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Rain, Artist, Clouds

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• A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

  Socrates

  Giving Up, Men, Mind

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• Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

  Steven Rattner

  Tough Economic Times, Ideas, Extremes

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• Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Insecure, Love Is

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• Kindness begets kindness evermore.

  Sophocles

  Kindness, Evermore

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Men, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1999). “The Narrative Poems”, p.88, Penguin

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• War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?

  Lisa Simeone

  Art, War, Years

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• Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Love, Friendship, Order

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

  Plutarch

  Love Is, And Love, Love And Trust

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• Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Deeds, Strange

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.294

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• They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

  Kathi Appelt

  Lightning, Strikes, Turns

  Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dark, Atmosphere, Goes On

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1930). “Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism”

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• As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

  Plutarch

  Hurt, Sight, Evil

  Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.58

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