Best Undertaken Sayings
129 Undertaken quotes by 120 unique authors
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Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as…
— Lola Montez
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One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be…
— Mark P. Shea
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No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
— Leon Wieseltier
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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've…
— Vera Wang
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The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future. Accept life daily not…
— Sid Lovett
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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science…
— William Bligh
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and…
— Aristotle
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On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of…
— Kim Campbell
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One simple change - seeking and finding peace within - could, if it were undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict and prevent injustice.…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is…
— Julius Wellhausen
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But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being…
— Ruth Cracknell
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All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together…
— John Cassian
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Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about.…
— Zhuangzi
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It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target.…
— Nils-Axel Morner
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Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen…
— Vincent de Paul
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Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free…
— Noam Chomsky
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Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we’ve undertaken…
— Paul Romer
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No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of…
— Lajos Kossuth
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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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