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• There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Violence, Nasty

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• The common breeds the common,
  A lout begets a lout,
  So when I take on half a score
  I knock their heads about.

  William Butler Yeats

  Half, Violence, Common

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.827, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Expression, Religion, Culture

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• Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.

  James F. Bell, III

  Honesty

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• Confidence begets confidence.
  Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
  Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus

  Independent, Heaven, Soul

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• Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Children, War, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• Energy begets energy.

  Dolly Parton

  Energy

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• Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

  Hannah Nordhaus

  Motherhood, Past, Solitude

  Hannah Nordhaus (2015). “American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.

  Joshua Radin

  Positive Energy, Energy, Knows

  "Joshua Radin, Singer-Songwriter: So Much To Say, So Much To Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Father, Men

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire"

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• Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Hate, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.11, Templeton Foundation Press

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• I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

  Karen Russell

  Tragedy, Bats, Caves

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Sep 01, 2014

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• It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

  Astley Cooper

  Recovery, Duty, Temper

  Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.30

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