“ Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
- 2K
“ Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. ”
- Abraham Cowley- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The chemical and biological (weapons), there is no ambiguity. They are able to produce those weapons. ”
- Richard Butler- Copy
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“ A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. ”
- Dennis Potter- Copy
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“ Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong. ”
- Legal Maxim- Copy
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“ He's involved in a lot of central Iowa causes and issues and is just a terrific guy. ”
- Michael Gartner- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If you would create something, you must be something. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ”
- Frank Tibolt- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream — but create! ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ”
- Mary Kay Ash- Copy
- 4K
“ A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts. ”
- Elvis Presley- Copy
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“ Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas. ”
- Tom McMakin- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. ”
- Robert Schuller- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
- 1.6K
“ It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. ”
- Cullen Hightower- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. ”
- John Berger- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. ”
- Brian Aldiss- Copy
- 225
“ Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ”
- Ronald Fisher- Copy
- 1.4K
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