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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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• There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

  Dorianne Laux

  Writing, Mysterious, Process

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• Man begets, but land does not beget.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Men, Land, Doe

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• Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doubt, Facts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Unique, Creating, Issues

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

  Munshi Premchand

  Natural

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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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• 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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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Attention

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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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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• The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Pride, Whole Family

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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• Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth rate can diminish as results revert towards normal. Maybe not in all cases, but often enough to make a long-term bet. Bottom line: I wouldn't want to get caught in a rush for the exit, much less get left behind. Only when big growth stocks fall into the dumper from time to time am I inclined to pick them up - and even then, only in moderation.

  John Neff

  Fall, Rising Prices, Names

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• Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

  Pharrell Williams

  Purpose, Intention, Results

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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• The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

  David Hume

  Vices, Morality, Virtue

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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