“ Aggravate your choler. - King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. ”
- Gabriel García Márquez- Copy
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“ Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best. ”
- Robert Iger- Copy
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“ The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals. ”
- James Laver- Copy
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“ O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
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“ John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations… ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss,Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures;But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Aloneness is inevitable in being human. People cannot accept this. They should be aware of it and use it. It heightens your perceptions. ”
- Edward Albee- Copy
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“ Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect. ”
- Frederick Saunders- Copy
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“ The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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“ To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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“ Well, Mr. Kerry's constant unfounded references to African-Americans having their votes: "stolen" or "taken away" in 2000 are far more likely to exacerbate racial divisions. ”
- John Fund- Copy
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“ I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. ”
- Edward Hall- Copy
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“ Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years. ”
- Charles Spurgeon- Copy
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“ There is an urgent need now, with this gene discovery, to redouble the efforts of researchers and capitalize on their important and steadfast work. ”
- Julia Roberts- Copy
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