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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Aristotle

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Charles Kuralt

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who makes no secret of himself, enrages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Oscar Wilde

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Oscar Wilde

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come.

Anne Frank

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Sallust

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

Henry Ford

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Proverb

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Walt Disney

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Piero Ferrucci

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

William Shakespeare

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

William Shakespeare

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear. Of him that hears it, never in the tongue. Of him that makes it.

William Shakespeare

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

William Shakespeare

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Vincent van Gogh

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Vincent van Gogh

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Louis Pasteur

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

Waste makes want.

English Proverb

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Hunger makes raw beans taste sweet.

Dutch Proverb

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

Culture makes all men gentle.

Menander

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

William Cobbett

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

Madonna

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Samuel Butler

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

Prosperity makes few friends.

Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Spanish Proverb

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves.

German Proverb

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men.

Ludwig van Beethoven

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Dylan Thomas

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Margaret Cho

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry S Truman

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Elvis Presley

If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job.

Woody Allen

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

C. S. Lewis

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

I don't drink; I don't like it - it makes me feel good.

Oscar Levant

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

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

Samuel Goldwyn

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Jean Paul Richter

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

Esther Dyson

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

Samuel Johnson

There are more applications being done online. People are sharing information online that makes them vulnerable.

Natalie Forbort

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Albert Einstein

We're both sticking to our core competency and that makes it a classic win-win situation for the students in our area.

Laurey Stryker

Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

Patrick Buchanan

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marian Anderson

He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

Campbell Scott

Emily is very capable but must remain focused, ... She knows her angles, and makes good stops and clears.

Casey Silver

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Douglas Coupland

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

Since we are really close to where tornado alley is we can get a tornado just like they do. It makes it more important.

Caitlyn Gardner

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

William Hazlitt

It's my mom. She wanted her impact, and it's the family history that makes the book so special because a lot of the stories I never knew before we did the book.

Rulon Gardner

That extra output from guys lower in your lineup makes the difference. We have guys on that third or fourth line that can score.

Regg Simon

Arroyo has been good for the economy. There's a bit of, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' in the Philippines.

Adam Le Mesurier

I am so happy to be part of work we do on behalf of the Alzheimer's and dementia clients. If I can make one person comfortable and happy, it makes my day.

Michelle Warren

That's what makes them so perfect -- they were two different sides of the same coin.

Frank Deford

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Joseph Conrad

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes

They made a good run on us, but it was something we expected. Every team makes a run. We just didn't worry about. We found a way to counteract it.

Jeff Wehling

Men and women chasing each other is what makes the human race.

Mark Beltaire

Our defense makes up for our offense. Everyone plays better offense when they play defense.

Orlandor Westbrooks

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

Billy Corgan

That makes the course more of their own and makes them want to do well.

Joe Hubble

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

Peter Greenaway

From a global perspective, we think the fixed-portable approach makes a lot of sense.

Manish Gupta

It is increasingly clear that global warming makes [hurricanes] more severe and destructive. Katrina is the shape of things to come.

Joseph Romm

It makes me very sad. I don't think the difficulties parents face are fully appreciated by the court.

Jocelyn Schaffer

We anticipate that when she makes a full recovery she'll be available for adoption.

Steve Lokker

Honestly, Megan Kim makes one error. It's a shame she's the reason we were in it the whole game.

Ron Evans

This makes our game against MSJ huge.

Wendy Nolan

We practiced defending the last two days and the boys executed exactly the way we planned. We really haven't been playing that well lately but this definitely makes us legit.

Jonas Honick

It helped out a lot that I was in Providence. I got to know some guys, the coaches, and the style of play. That makes it a lot easier than it is for some of the younger guys coming out of college or junior.

Andrew Alberts

(I hope to) keep putting on a little show, that's what makes me me.

Darrion Caldwell

This guy is a natural. He was born to be a great government executive. He makes things happen.

Michael Barnes

It makes a big difference when you don't have all your big guns in there. Anything can happen, but picking up those bonus points, that's a huge lift for your team and definitely got our guys fired up.

Joe Russell

By allowing the employers to come to the high school it makes it easier for them to find interviews. We've got kids here willing to work.

Celeste Anthony

It makes me sick to my stomach because I don't see, as a human being, how people could feel that way.

Laura Wood

Brent has probably the best game speed of any player I've ever coached. He has a lot of football savvy. He's one of those players that makes things happen.

Jay Blaylock

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.

John Madden

This makes it quite a lot less likely that it will (reduce rates) but it doesn't rule it out completely.

Robert Prior

I think that it will make for one heck of a weekend. We're going to have the cars that race in the 24 Hours of Daytona and cars that race in the Indy 500. I think that that makes for about as good a show as you could ask for.

Steve Page

What Todd went through was an aberration. He makes it easier for me and (Atkins) because he's on base every time we come up.

Matt Holliday

I feel like there is that disconnect that makes them look for other sources.

Matthew Leituala

When the gap opened at the head of the stretch, he just exploded. A horse like this just makes our job easy.

Jeff Trosclair

It'll come down to who makes the right adjustments, ... It looks like all of us have pretty good cars in the cool and pretty good cars in the heat. When you're that close, all it takes is one mistake.

John Force

That makes it a tremendously more compelling place to go study.

Matt Golombek

One of the things that makes it so unique is that it's an entertaining day for a wide range of ages, and it offers a wide range of entertainment and information.

Mayra Marrero

You will learn that a penny, just a penny per share, makes all the difference.

John Hueston

It was very exciting. The fact that it was a handwritten manuscript makes it unique. Everything else that we have recovered had already been printed. This is a first.

Nellie Mckay

They put a lot of pressure on you when you're from Pittsburgh, telling me everyone from Pittsburgh makes the final four. I told them I'd make the final four.

Rafe Judkins

When things click together like that and everything seems to work, it makes us that much better and the game that much more enjoyable.

Jessica Ajoux

I've never understood why putting a casino on water makes it palatable to some.

Jon Lucas

We had never gone into the championship game having that lack of pressure. This makes it a little bit better. Hopefully it will get us a top 16 seed. Our guys battled so hard. I can't be prouder for a group than those guys.

Alan Magnani

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

I would not like the court to impose anything that would go against the grain. He is a very talented man. Unfortunately, every move he makes has been in the spotlight.

Sean Curran

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

The whole situation just makes you value playing that much more.

Chris Johnson

What makes the difference is the data that comes out after the May 10 Fed meeting.

Matthew Kassel

For someone to play a childish game like throwing a firecracker at an animal, it makes me angry.

Jim Rice

The thing I think Lucas has is that calm poise and mature demeanor about him and he makes everyone around him better.

Justin Young

What actually makes people happy is full engagement.

Bill Mckibben

The game improvement technology [these irons] incorporate makes them an ideal high-performance option for players looking for a little more help from their equipment.

Drew Isaacman

It just makes you work harder.

Aaron England

High current density changes everything. It makes everything faster and more powerful. If you want a faster computer, you need higher current density.

Cemal Basaran

Practice makes permanent.

Bobby Robson

Bad calls are bad calls, and there's nothing you can do about that. When a ref makes a horrible call, you cannot change the way you play.

Chris Lepage

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity and to do it on Australia Day makes it even more special.

Layne Beachley

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Alice Thomas Ellis

That was his speed. That's what makes him so dangerous.

Avery Cutshaw

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

Bernard Liautaud

I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

Rufus King

It makes it really tough, especially when (Willis) is on a roll.

Brandon Backe

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

Sefer Hasidim

When you see it and it breathes and you see young people and their parents and their eyes aglow, that's what really makes me proud.

Charles Mcafee

It does not make it any harder (for SE2) but I am not sure it makes it that much easier, either.

Patricia Ross

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Joseph Sobran

A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.

Gregg Andrews

We're getting a balanced scoring attack. We're scoring points and that makes things much easier.

Phil Letham

Life is not what it's supposed to be. Its what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Virginia Satir

They say 'practice" makes perfect.' Of course, it doesn't. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection.

Henry Longhurst

After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you proud right there.

Brad Arnold

We hope (last season's) experience makes the difference. We feel like we're a better team. And we know the ropes a little more this time.

Nic Wise

You can see what it does for the lineup having him in there, as far as runs are concerned. He makes everyone more comfortable on offense, and defensively.

Kyle Crookes

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Arthur Gordon

That's what keeps us going. Every one of them brings a tear to your eyes and makes these sleepless nights worth it.

Dave Pauli

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Cicero

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

That adds a whole new dimension to our team. It makes us a complete offense.

Don Byrd

They will have words like Christmas and Jesus in them, which makes them a little harder to filter out.

Andrew Klein

It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good.

Greek Proverb

They've got some players out. Their point guard and leading scorer are both injured and that makes them pretty limited in what they can do.

John Schnieders

If one makes demands of the country, those whose bank accounts are stronger must also contribute their fair share.

Franz Muentefering

Many times it makes me miss teaching.

Joanne Wheeler

It's just really exciting to get to represent your country in anything, you know. It just makes you really proud and makes you feel like you really accomplished something.

Megan O'connell

Typically the [federal government] makes a tax change and the states conform. It's a routine event. The fact that states haven't conformed yet doesn't mean they are not going to.

Alysoun Mclaughlin

Transferring the risk of drought to international financiers makes sense for insurance companies, because it enables them to expand their portfolios.

Robert J. Shiller

I can't speak for them. But we've lost some games, too. It makes you face reality, that there are some things you needed to improve on.

Abdul Hodge

We're very focused on what makes sense.

Naveen Chopra

It's a great e-mail device, [but] the BlackBerry makes a crappy phone. If we can do it all with Exchange, and do it clean, that would be so much easier.

Rich Debrino

Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

In our Country . . . one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

It makes me want to know, are there any others, and we need to know it.

Councilor Dennis Eaniri

That's an interesting hook, the notion of a father telling his children how he ultimately met their mother. It makes it feel distinctive.

Dana Walden

It makes you think back about that day and how far we have come since then.

Mike Scrove

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Harper Lee

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Anatole Broyard

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

Robert Benchley

I expect that every Irish-American coming to Ireland says visiting makes them feel good to be here. But I feel drawn to Dingle, I feel a sense of coming home. For me that is what it is.

Gregory Peck

It makes you feel special. It's pretty neat that he would pick us out of a crowd.

John Harrison

It makes your city look cheap, and these guys are going out for free advertising for $14.99 to have 25 signs made. Our city is very good (at removing them).

Ted Bushelman

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Fred Friendly

We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.

Dennis Allen

She was a lovely lady. It makes me feel sad but it was important to come because of the wedding.

John Chandler

We're all just devastated out here. None of it makes any sense.

Joan Mcinerney

We knew they could shoot like that, but knowing it is different than stopping it. When they've got four guys who can shoot like that, it makes it tough.

David Pyper

Overall, it says a lot about the coaches in the program. It makes it very special.

Jerry Farris

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Kristin Chenoweth