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• Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Yield, Doe

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.138, The Overlook Press

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• Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

  Robert Crumb

  Men, Leader, Want

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional love. When we mistreat animals, we mistreat ourselves. When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls.

  Marc Bekoff

  Unconditional Love, Animal, Compassion

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• Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.533, Barbour Publishing

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• Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Might, Six

  Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.360

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• Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

  Margaret Sanger

  Perfect, Tree, Growth

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• Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

  Francis Quarles

  Hatred, Division, Scandal

  Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.49

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• They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.

  Robert Southey

  Thinking, Careers, Design

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• One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

  Robert Southey

  Guilt, Faults, Crime

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• Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  World, Way, Violence

  "Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More". Interview with Toshi Reagon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

  Victoria Moran

  Literal, Nourishment

  "Ageless Living in a Culture of Youth" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2011.

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• I think work begets work.

  Adam Baldwin

  Thinking

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• Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

  Soong May-ling

  Country, Progress, Politics

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• Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

  M. Scott Peck

  Hard Work, Grace, Growth

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• Literature usually begets literature.

  Susan Sontag

  Literature

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Against Interpretation and Other Essays”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Ignorance, Stuff

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• Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Dirty

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• Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sight, Doors, Grace

  Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.330

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• Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

  George Washington

  Confusion, Liberty, Ends

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• The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Kindness, People, Doe

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

  Bill Hybels

  Example, Grit

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• Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

  Chinua Achebe

  Fire, Okonkwo, Ashes

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.109, Heinemann

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• Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

  John Owen

  Evil, Temptation, Gains

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• Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Philosophy, Real

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Foundation, Essentials, Savages

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