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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Believes, Wheels

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke

Experience, Learning, Stupid

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron

Life, Men, Death

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.
Persis Khambatta

Insecurity, Insecure, Creative

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine

Cause, Punishment, Martyr

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes, Sense, Lucky

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement Stone

Yourself, Master

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust

Work, Book, Possible

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward

Beauty, Real, Laugh

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
Harry Callahan

Life, Feelings, Same

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Mind, Desire

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Charles Erwin Wilson

Work, Good, Men

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson

Good, Design, Person

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden

Mean, Him, Cannot

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke

Knowledge, Mind, Thinking

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Mason Cooley

Creativity, Looks, Leap

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls

Judge, Everybody, Praise

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
Rita Rudner

Men, Stupid, Woman

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Justice, Democracy, Possible

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.
Demi Lovato

Life, Happy, Motto

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Important, Able, Far

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life, Beauty, Work

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Willie Nelson

Play, Choice, Lovers

One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson

Courage, Majority

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Mason Cooley

Alone, Someone, Blame

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant

Himself, Complain, Worm

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Sylvester Stallone

Power, Truth, Winners

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman

Respect, True, Self

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

Bad, Film, Twice

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean Nathan

Beauty, Men, Sad

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