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A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there… — Bruce Catton
The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how… — Douglas Hofstadter
Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming. — Timothy Keller
A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. — Peter Drucker
Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long… — Walter E. Williams
But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way… — Wendell Berry
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease,… — A. C. Benson
DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets. — Ambrose Bierce
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is… — Henry David Thoreau
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. — William Shakespeare
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a… — John Updike
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it… — William Blake
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth. — Robert Louis Stevenson
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of… — Robert Kennedy

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