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• Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Father, Men

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire"

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• When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Maturity, Men

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• Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

  Charles Stross

  Smart, Matter, Singularity

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.344, Penguin

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• You will not see
  that desire begets
  love,
  until it all flames
  into one concise
  and metallic blaze.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Flames, Desire, Metallic

  Hilda Doolittle (1983). “Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks”

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• The urge to kill, like the urge to beget,
  Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set
  Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can
  Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Men, Flesh, Today

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• Confidence begets confidence.
  Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
  Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus

  Independent, Heaven, Soul

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• Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

  Gong Ji-young

  Children, Violence, Adults

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• Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.

  James F. Bell, III

  Honesty

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• All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.

  Joseph Rusling Meeker

  Party, Animal, Play

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• There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Violence, Nasty

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• Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Hate, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.11, Templeton Foundation Press

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• I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

  Karen Russell

  Tragedy, Bats, Caves

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Sep 01, 2014

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• It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

  Astley Cooper

  Recovery, Duty, Temper

  Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.30

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