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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde

Ambition, Growth, Germ

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

Happiness, State, Values

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett

Enjoy, Far, Process

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Nothing, Reason

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus Christ

God, Alone, Live

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton

Live, Die, Sometimes

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
Edward Hopper

Work, Find, Working

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann

Life, Death, Fear

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume

Philosophy, Secret, Influence

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
William Law

Faith, Nature, Strong

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan P. Smith

Good, Live, Conscience

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes

Envy, Living, Dead

We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.
Rachael Ray

Food, Pet, Help

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot

Minds, Knowing, Speech

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Jeremy Taylor

Great, Anger, Small

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
Anita Roddick

Good, History, Business

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.
Eric Liu

Game, America, Loss

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.
Tony Kushner

Love, Good, Greatest

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Evolution, Vague, Definite

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot

Business, Beliefs, Judgements

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Life, Truth, Death

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
Mary Schmich

Style, Dress, Costume

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
David Miliband

Politics, Good, Before

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
Vinoba Bhave

Life, Mind, Free

Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.
Ezra Miller

Best, Amazing, Living

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster

Wisdom, Folly, Subtlest

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.
Chaim Potok

Problem, Problems, Write

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
Paul Ricoeur

If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.
Mark Skousen

Good, Two, Enough

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
Ed Harris

Forget, Fighting, Religious

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