| "To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue." »Lao Tzu |
| "Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car." »Edward De Bono |
| "The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing." »Sophie Kerr |
| "The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." »Peter De Vries |
| "We adore chaos because we love to produce order." »M. C. Escher |
| "As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself." »Adelle Davis |
| "The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence." »Philo Vance |
| "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." »Ralph Nader |
| "To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce." »Peter de Gaston Levis |
| "Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man." »David Hume |
| "What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life." »Srully D. Blotnick |
| "Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth." »T. J. Hoover |
| "A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." »Fritjof Capra |
| "No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit." »Ansel Adams |
| "The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield |
| "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." »Robert Wilensky |
| "Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish." »Homer |
| "I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity." »Camille Paglia |
| "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." »Rod Serling |
| "The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve |
| "It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect." »Frederick Douglas |
| "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." »Rich Cook |
| "The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful." »Anna Garlin Spencer |
| "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles |
| "I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police." »Janina Atkins |
| "My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century." »Sidney Madwed |
| "We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity." »Kabbalah |
| "Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two." »H Hahn Blavatsky |
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