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A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money. -- Lewis Hallam
The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time. -- John Mackey
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors. -- Lucas Papademos
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. -- Cornelius Vanderbilt
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. -- Martin Filler
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. -- Samantha Power
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement. -- Aamir Khan
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. -- Samuel Johnson
It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics. -- Hjalmar Schacht
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. -- Oliver Cromwell
The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken. -- Carol Bellamy
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. -- Kim Campbell
The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult. -- John Boehner
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken. -- Paul Nurse
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. -- George Washington
It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe. -- Warren Christopher
Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young. -- David Guterson
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. -- Julius Wellhausen
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. -- Noam Chomsky
Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. -- Ferdinand Lassalle
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. -- Margaret Chan
Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large. -- Jan Egeland
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice. -- Tom Hodgkinson
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal. -- Theodor Herzl
Correction badly undertaken creates distance. -- Kevin Thoman
Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently. -- Paulo Freire
Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken. -- Fred Brooks
To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life. -- Henry R. Luce
In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution. -- Bernard Bailyn
No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion. -- Elisabeth Marbury
In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits. -- Ashwin Sanghi
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. -- Joseph Conrad
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. -- Leon Wieseltier
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. -- Richard Mitchell
...the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone. -- John Prendergast
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles. -- Francois Rabelais
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. -- Henry David Thoreau
The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks -- Dana Perino
I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken. -- Floyd E. Bloom
Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken. -- Will Hobbs
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken -- Philip Wylie
Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society. -- Nicholas Rodger
Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith. -- Macarius of Egypt
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. -- Irving Langmuir
Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed. -- Sun Tzu
Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure. -- Oswald Chambers
Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work. -- Jorie Graham
It's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it. -- Emma Cameron
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! -- Mariella Frostrup
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis. -- Sergei Lavrov
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss. -- Katy Lederer
Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. -- Earl Warren
One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be inspired! -- Mark P. Shea
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff. -- Stendhal
A war undertaken and brazenly carried for the perpetual enslavement of the colored men, calls logically and loudly for the colored men to help suppress it. -- Frederick Douglass
The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows. -- Percy Grainger
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. -- Evelyn Glennie
There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken and performed with that godliness in mind. -- Stuart Wilde
After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward. -- Marlene Van Niekerk
In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century, -- Paul Romer
I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow. -- Martin Luther
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken. -- Paul Gauguin
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. -- Charles Eliot Norton
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper. -- Horace Mann
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. -- William Bligh
But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go. -- Ruth Cracknell
Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . . -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries. -- Blaise Pascal
It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken. -- Margaret Thatcher
I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind. -- George MacDonald
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. -- Aristotle
Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine. -- Lola Montez
There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet. -- William Allen White
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection. -- Zhuangzi
I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest. -- Charles Dickens
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history. -- Sarah Vowell
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out. -- Adolf Hitler
Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things. -- Jakaya Kikwete
But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as journalists. That's why [Vladimir] Putin's "fifth column" is that powerful in the West. -- Garry Kasparov

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