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  • Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become "¦ a far greater aggressor. -- John Hospers
  • 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
  • The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. -- Richard L. Evans
  • The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. -- Dorothea Lange
  • People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that. -- Deepak Chopra
  • The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. -- Robert Collier
  • My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. -- Peter Paul Rubens
  • My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. -- Jorge Luis Borges
  • To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  • It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking. -- Pericles
  • Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III. -- Walter F. Mondale
  • The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. -- Howard Hughes
  • Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed. -- Robert H. Schuller
  • I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking. -- Guy Ritchie
  • Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. -- Frederick Reines
  • They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. -- Arrian
  • Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
  • I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. -- Golda Meir
  • Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term. -- Bob Barr
  • Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success. -- Napoleon Hill
  • I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words. -- Matisyahu
  • If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations. -- Bernie Siegel
  • I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious. -- Eddie Redmayne
  • To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • Carry on an undefiled undertaking. -- Angelica Hopes
  • An undertaking beset with danger. -- Horace
  • Writing is an undertaking for the modest. -- Marianne Moore
  • People think meditation is a huge undertaking. -- Deepak Chopra
  • The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking. -- Mason Cooley
  • Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless. -- Laozi
  • Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking. -- Jessica Valenti
  • I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking. -- Gertrude Stein
  • Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking. -- Rose Byrne
  • The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking. -- Richard Tarnas
  • It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything. -- Martin Luther
  • If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking. -- Ovid
  • The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking -- Samuel Johnson
  • Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches. -- Napoleon Hill
  • It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions. -- Albert Einstein
  • Marriage is an undertaking that requires focused time and attention to prepare effectively. -- Laura M. Brotherson
  • Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking. -- Bill Kurtis
  • It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all. -- Lupe Fiasco
  • The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come. -- Herodotus
  • Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. -- Albert Einstein
  • Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. -- Og Mandino
  • When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row. -- Scott Raab
  • The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology. -- Simon Newcomb
  • Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines. -- Julius Rosenwald
  • When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself. -- Francois Rabelais
  • The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare. -- Alexis Carrel
  • The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract. -- Daniel Kemmis
  • Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it. -- Laverne Cox
  • Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking. -- Samuel Johnson
  • In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people. -- Max Anders
  • An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
  • No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself. -- Napoleon Hill
  • When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. -- Juvenal
  • Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos. -- Haruki Murakami
  • A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image. -- Catherine McAuley
  • Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. -- Napoleon Hill
  • There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. -- Sam Waterston
  • Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. -- William James
  • Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous. -- Claire Danes
  • To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge. -- Grace Hopper
  • [Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III -- Walter F. Mondale
  • Is enthusiasm important in selling? Yes, genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking. -- Dale Carnegie
  • You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless. -- Napoleon Hill
  • There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back. -- Robert E. Lee
  • The night of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
  • Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. -- Arnold Bennett
  • Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country. -- Marco Rubio
  • Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity. -- Graham Nelson
  • Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality. -- David Lilienthal
  • U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter. -- Lee H. Hamilton
  • Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. -- George Will
  • Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse. -- Epictetus
  • The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century. -- Barbara Tuchman
  • It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication. -- Mark Ruffalo
  • To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control. -- Michelle Huneven
  • As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. -- Lewis Hallam
  • I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. -- Nelson Mandela
  • It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as to when the nuisance is abated. -- Jack McConnell
  • Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
  • These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov. -- Howard Carter
  • In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
  • In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
  • For many years, the work advanced but slowly. One denomination after another embarked in the undertaking; and now, American missionaries are seen in almost every land and every clime. -- Adoniram Judson
  • Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it. -- Crispian Mills
  • In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking. -- Seth Klarman
  • The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking. -- Alcee Hastings
  • Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon its objectivity and non-practical, non-partisan passion. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
  • You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses. -- Napoleon Hill
  • The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep. -- J. K. Bharavi
  • For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity. -- Kathryn Harrison
  • But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible. -- Francis Bacon
  • A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently -- Richard Posner
  • I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. -- Georg Cantor
  • I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. -- Georg Cantor
  • The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series. -- James Loeb
  • One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it. -- Dorothea Lange
  • At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
  • To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. -- Mary Astell
  • Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. -- Jessamyn West
  • Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. -- George Will
  • To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found. -- Deepak Chopra
  • The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others. -- George J. Mitchell
  • Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up. -- Janet Morris
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