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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh

Love, Strength, True

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge

Great, Alone, Others

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
David Brinkley

Give, Same, News

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Niklaus Wirth

Rather, Once, Forever

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Death, Making, High

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford

Country, Between, Fact

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
Imran Khan

Down, Team, Ultimately

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Manuel Puig

Different, Attention, Reading

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Power, Judge, Expect

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
Bill Nighy

Almost, Result, Hunger

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
Edward Thorndike

Act, Situation, Animal

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.
Jon Landau

Life, Person, Thought

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
James K. Polk

President, Leisure, Duties

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
Sebastian Junger

War, Job, Battle

When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
Billy Mays

Best, Against, Wall

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau

Great, Small, Soul

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau

Great, Best, Small

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Geoffrey Beene

Fashion, Rather, News

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
Gustav Krupp

War, Proud, Here

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
Jan Hammer

Today, Mother, She

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
Charles Buck

Life, God, Person

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