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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ↗

— Allan Bloom

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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. ↗

— Ovid

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. ↗

— Theodore Gericault

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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

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