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• The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

  Lord Byron

  Wine, Sight, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

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• At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation benefits no one; that we can, we will, and we must find other ways to protect ourselves, our nations and our future: for it is not sufficient to have peace in our time, but, instead, we must leave a peaceful world to our children.

  David Saperstein

  Religious, Children, Peaceful

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• If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

  John Wesley

  Love Is, Thinking, May

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• Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Love Is, Knows

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• A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

  Francis of Assisi

  Children, Understanding, Promise

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• As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

  Mark McKinnon

  War, Winning, Tariffs

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• Health begets Spirit.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Spirit

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• Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

  John Podhoretz

  Thumbs, Losing, Very Good

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Moving, Hands, Waiting

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• Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Snakes, Twists

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• A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Sheep, Government, Political

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• Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation to beget another when parents can secure so little for their children, so little safety, even in the best circumstances. Great faith is required to give the child up, trusting God to honor the parents’ love for him by assuring that there will indeed be angels in that wilderness.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Father, Angel

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• Secrecy begets tyranny.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Political, Secrecy, Tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.32, Penguin

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• Reading begets reading.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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• Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Compassion, Understanding, Doubt

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.289, The Overlook Press

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• Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, And Love

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• The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.

  A. C. Bradley

  Character, Men, Numbers

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.13, A. C. Bradley

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• To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Opinion, Conversation, Mark

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.104

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• I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.

  Josh Garrels

  Believe, Generosity, Giving

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Weapons, Revolution, Sides

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Animal, Pet, Outstanding

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• It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

  Aristotle

  Long, Office, Easy

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.180, Aristotle

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• Remorse begets reform.

  William Cowper

  Reform, Remorse

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems, etc”, p.331

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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Order, Ruins

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122

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• Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

  Hippocrates

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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