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Student government is not a job. It is a place you go to volunteer your time and make your campus a better place, this sense of entitlement to a salary breeds corruption, disguised as social justice.

Jacob Ellenhorn

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Anybody that breeds is not part of the solution. They're part of the problem.

Timothy Gress

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Understood this way, prosperity, instead of helping, breeds conflict.

Evo Morales

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sometimes you get into the thick of an investigation and you get a question answered that breeds three more questions, especially in a high-profile matter like this, where there are a lot of strong feelings on both sides, once you've started down this road sometimes it can drag out.

Donnie Dixon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There are over 100 dog breeds that are far more suitable to perform tasks for persons with disabilities than pit bulls, especially rescued pit bulls with unknown backgrounds.

Colleen Lynn

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Access to resources, constrained by climatic factors, breeds conflict.

Chaloka Beyani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

George MacDonald

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9 years ago

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Pierre Corneille

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10 years ago

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Stephen Covey

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10 years ago

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Agnes Repplier

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10 years ago

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

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13 years ago

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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13 years ago

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

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13 years ago

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.

Robert Heinlein

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13 years ago

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Apuleius

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14 years ago

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

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14 years ago

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

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14 years ago

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Bhagavad Gita

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14 years ago

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis

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14 years ago

Delay always breeds danger.

Miguel de Cervantes

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14 years ago

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

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14 years ago

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

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14 years ago

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Mark Twain

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14 years ago

A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

Saint Jerome

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14 years ago

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