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• There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Hue

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.14, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Love, Beautiful, Poison

  Jens Peter Jacobsen (1917). “Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century”

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• You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.

  Mike Mentzer

  Workout, Bad Ass, Growth

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• The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Life, Nature, Ocean

  George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.103, New York : C. Scribner

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• Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Science

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• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Fiction

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

  Georges Sorel

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

  Conrad Black

  Ambition, Optimistic, People

  Official Records, www.ontla.on.ca. October 17, 1996.

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• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

  Plutarch

  Weed, Hard Work, Garden

  "Life of Caius Marcus Coriolanus" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 897), 1922.

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• It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Success, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.142

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• The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

  Dustin Penner

  Team, Fall, Hockey

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• People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Morning, Swimming

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.13, David C Cook

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• Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results.

  Hamilton Holt

  Army, Effort, Doe

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• I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Love, Believe, Personality

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• What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

  Buddhadasa

  Inspirational, Suffering, World

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• To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Death, Real, Thinking

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• The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

  John Culliney

  Ocean, Men, Rivers

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• Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

  Ovid

  Flower, Rose, Joy

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• The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

  Ovid

  Flower, Rose, Ancestry

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• The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.

  Benjamin Rush

  Book, Patriotic, School

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• The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Good Life, Signatures

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mother, Nature, Children

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Kindness

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• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Freedom, Hero

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• I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.

  Laurens van der Post

  Hero, Men, Degrees

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