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• This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

  Martin Luther

  Church, Doctrine, Hours

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

  Sarah Paulson

  Acting

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• Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Way, Tyranny, Subservience

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• The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Struggle, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

  Mark Twain

  Horse, Laughing, Ordinary

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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• It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wish

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• Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Stupid, Lasts, Violence

  Brian K. Vaughan (2013). “Saga #5”, p.18, Image Comics

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• In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

  James Hutton

  Science, Curiosity, Desire

  James Hutton (1997). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations, in Four Parts”, p.16, Geological Society of London

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• It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Understanding, Littles

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• Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Memories, Life Is, Turns

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.349, tredition

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• Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

  William Penn

  Leaving, Needs, Benefits

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• The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element of corruption in men that renders them unworthy of God. Knowledge of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness begets pride, and knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God begets despair, but knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man knowledge of both simultaneously.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Pride

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• Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Long

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.51, Vintage

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• That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.

  Ben Sherwood

  Grief, Math, Two

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.267, Bantam

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• You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Christian, Children, Growing Up

  "Harlequin". Book by Bernard Cornwell, 2000.

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• There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Compassion, Hatred, Tolerance

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.314, The Overlook Press

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• Violence should not always beget more violence.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Violence, Should

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.336, Macmillan

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• Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

  Graham Swift

  Children, People, Curiosity

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• Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Hatred, Bloodshed

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• I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, World, Lost

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.182, Vintage

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• Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

  Andre Gide

  Fear, Cowardice, Worst

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• Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Madness, Beast

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• It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

  John Lennon

  Love, Beautiful, Baby

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• The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets love and friendship, and engenders divine influence. Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Memories, Heart

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• The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.

  Plato

  Children, Men, Differences

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