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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, War, Evil

  Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

  Alec Baldwin

  Successful, Rocks, Has Beens

  "Why Me?". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2008.

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• Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ambition, Government, Design

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

  John Dryden

  Desire, Liberty, Hunger

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• Every baby born
  unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come
  due in twenty years with interest, an anger
  that must find a target, a pain that will
  beget pain. A decade downstream a child
  screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched,
  a firing squad is summoned, a button
  is pushed and the world burns.

  Marge Piercy

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

  Lee Iacocca

  Guy, Want, Lasts

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• Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Effort, Development, Demand

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.79, SUNY Press

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• Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doubt, Facts

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• I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Sex, Hate, Men

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• The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

  Laozi

  Two, Numbers, Three

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.63, Chinese University Press

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• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  Plato

  Children, Passion, Reality

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• May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sweet, Agony

  George Eliot (1900). “Armgart: The Spanish Gypsy, and Other Poems”

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• Man begets, but land does not beget.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Men, Land, Doe

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• Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Offspring, Protestant Work Ethic

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.244

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• Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.

  Munshi Premchand

  Natural

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• Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

  Jane Porter

  Confidence, People, Failing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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• For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

  Aeschylus

  Parent

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• The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

  Will Durant

  Business, Ideas, Diversity

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Poetry, Inspire

  Matthew Arnold, Gillian Sutherland (1973). “Matthew Arnold on education”, Penguin Books

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• I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Dozen, Sin, Found

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• Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

  Bill Drayton

  Repetition

  "Bill Drayton’s Five Trends for Social Entrepreneurs" by Eli Malinsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
  For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
  Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Ephemeral, Tablets

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

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