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• Do anything, but let it produce joy.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Carpe Diem, Joy

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• Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Alcohol, May

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• Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Free Education, Soul

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• Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

  Marcel Proust

  Doctors, Doubt, World

  Marcel Proust, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol E. Clark (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Way by Swann's”

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• It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Objective Truth, Certain

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

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• A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Maturity, Order

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• You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

  Ralph Nader

  Adversity, Thinking, Luxury

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• It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Forever, World, Unthinkable

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• But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Secret, Able

  Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde, Henry Zick (1909). “The Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde: What never dies”

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• The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

  Sydney Smith

  Mistake, Writing, Dinner

  Sydney Smith (1848). “The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes Complete in One”, p.343

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• I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wife, Choices, Vices

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

  William P. Young

  Humility, Like You, Shack

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• I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.

  Frank O'Hara

  Pain, Believe, Common Sense

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• Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.

  William P. Young

  Love You, Humility, Fruit

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• Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

  Natsuki Takaya

  People, Outcomes, Strange

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• A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Order, Hatred

  Edmund Burke (1842). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.377

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• Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Wise, Stupid, Here I Am

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.82, Yale University Press

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• No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the realm of science. You do have the attitude of the dreamer about you. For that reason, I haven't the heart to argue anymore about this - it is a hopeless talk. And for a simple factory man like me, an effort must be abandoned once its hopelessness is exposed. Only the artist perseveres in such circumstances. (193)

  David Wroblewski

  Attitude, Heart, Men

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• In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Creative, Clay

  David Byrne (2010). “Bicycle Diaries”, p.192, Faber & Faber

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• The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Mean, Giving

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Utilitarianism: Mill's Works”, p.3, VM eBooks

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• Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

  Bill Bryson

  Clever, Believe, Cities

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

  John Piper

  Christian, Passion, Evil

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• When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

  N. T. Wright

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Gratitude

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• When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, Love Is, Generosity

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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