Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more."
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Begets
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Politician, Activist
"There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence."
Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"Kindness begets kindness evermore."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Change begets change."
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"Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast."
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"Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself."
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"I think work begets work."
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"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock."
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"Strange thoughts beget strange deeds."
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"Energy begets energy."
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"Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid."
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"... only love begets love."
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"It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish."
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"Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear."
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"Literature usually begets literature."
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