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When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. — Pablo Picasso
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was… — Lance Armstrong
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists… — Georges Braque
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. — Elizabeth Hardwick
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. — Eric Berne
Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman' — Jennifer Lawrence
I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently. — Pedro Almodovar
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. — George Orwell
I go to bed wearing a very baggy one-piece cheetah suit, just because it makes my son laugh. My sexy lingerie has been locked in… — Sandra Bullock
On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have… — John Ruskin
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It makes you realize that people are the same wherever you go. — Nicholas Lea
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with… — Monica Baldwin
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is… — Bruce Schneier
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be… — Esther Dyson
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the… — Oswald Chambers
The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source. — Susan Jeffers
We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you think they are doing wrong,… — Esther Hicks
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. — Jacques Delille
When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step. — Paulo Coelho

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