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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim Rohn
You
Will
Value
Setting
Major
Greater
Makes
Always
Accomplish
Goal
Than
Get
Far
Reason
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
Life
Wisdom
Wise
Man
Thought
Pain
Think
Makes
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
John Quincy Adams
Rights
Humanity
First
Depend
Skin
Virtue
Evils
Moral
More
Color
Doctrine
Principle
Makes
Sources
False
Very
Than
Heartless
Vice
Estimates
Which
Among
Slavery
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
Man
Wrapped
Pretty
Small
He
Himself
Makes
Up
Package
I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.
Kim Kardashian
New Year's
Time
Me
Try
Year
Every
Alcohol
Sick
Every Time
Booze
Touch
Drink
Driver
Feel
New
Makes
Always
Taste
Stand
Eve
Even
Designated Driver
It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
Lady Gaga
Work
Good
Me
You
Feel Good
People
Better
Sometimes
Down
Other
About
Put
Feel
Know
Make
Makes
Mockery
Maybe
Them
Themselves
Fun
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron
Words
Thought
Drop
Think
Thousands
Small
Like
Perhaps
Dew
Makes
Falling
Which
Produces
Ink
Things
Millions
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry
You
Lonely
Must
Exceptional
Also
Make
Makes
Inevitably
Which
Thing
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
Success
Must
Admit
Individual
Terms
Fellow
Fellow Human Beings
Makes
His
Contributions
Human
Human Beings
Personally
Measure
Beings
Her
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain
Best
Think
Alike
Horse
Makes
Opinion
Were
Difference
Races
Should
Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.
Max Aaron
Good
You
Try
Not Good Enough
Nothing
Enough
Simply
Makes
Than
Skills
Harder
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.
Michael Leunig
Offended
Nervous
Become
Alive
Easily
Focused
Insecure
Touchy
Taking
Feel
Makes
Offence
Them
Meaningful
Many
Creatures
Deeply
Humans
One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
Michio Kaku
Space
Sky
Half
Looking
Looking Back
Sense
Stars
Back
Someone
Habitable
Look
Around
Makes
Huge
Surrounding
Going
Galaxy
Them
Us
Planets
Billion
Night
What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
Nadia Comaneci
Me
Appreciation
Happy
People
Around
Makes
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
Nas
Great
You
Confidence
Experience
People
Own
Move On
Gives
Great People
Also
Learn
Makes
Lot
Move
Working
Your
Career
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Peter Tosh
Love
Me
Church
Black
Sick
Say
Born
Shall
Shamed
Main
Songs
Sin
Sing
Makes
Inequity
Am
Than
Snow
Ask
Used
Wash
They Say
Why
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.
Ray Kurzweil
Future
Technology
Reality
Our
Intuition
About
Take
Steps
Makes
Linear
Get
Difference
Information
Information Technology
Exponential
Billion
Exponentially
Profound
Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.
Reba McEntire
Me
Waiting
Restless
Makes
Ready
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
Robert Baden-Powell
Class
Country
Differences
Brotherhood
Adopted
Since
Makes
Covers
Up
Uniform
Universally
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
Sebastian Junger
Veterans Day
You
Battle
Other
Soldiers
Brotherhood
Only
Makes
Get
The Only Thing
Psychologically
Tolerable
Each
Among
Thing
Need
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Stephen Hawking
Fire
Universe
Rules
Possible
Only
Makes
Equations
Just
Them
Unified
Breathes
Theory
Describe
Even
Set
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Love
Man
Marriage
Mistake
Girl
Marrying
Makes
Many
Whole
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills.
Steven Biko
Spiritual
Oppression
Problem
Poverty
Exploitation
White
Enough
Complex
Has-Been
Bad
Deliberate
More
Fact
Supremacy
Coupled
Tied
Makes
Material
Been
Up
Want
Apartheid
Much
Capitalist
When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.
Travis Bradberry
You
Management
Problem
Behavior
Few
Situation
Sense
Worse
Rules
Bad
Entire
Outlandish
Bad Situation
No Sense
Individuals
Performance
Know
Because
Makes
How
Halt
Demoralizing
Manage
Create
Much
Workforce
Your
Companies
Ridiculous
Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.
Troian Bellisario
Love
Me
Happy
Feeling
Find
Seeing
Unconditionally
Feel
Content
Makes
Friends
Just
Succeed
Common sense often makes good law.
William O. Douglas
Good
Legal
Law
Sense
Makes
Often
Common
Common Sense
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