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I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. — Bernard Williams
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. — Erich Fromm
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer… — Li Ka-shing
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work. — William Bernbach
God makes stars. I just produce them. — Samuel Goldwyn
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite… — Jean Genet
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this… — Simone Weil
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative… — Thomas Merton
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. — E E Cummings
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for… — Freya Stark
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. — William Zinsser
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. — Richard Whately
Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. — Elbert Hubbard
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who… — Orison Swett Marden
This is what I call understanding. If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life - and good that it is so, because it… — Rajneesh

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