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set out
«Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
changed, out to, set, set out
«There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.»
«Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.»
Author: Antonio Porchia
| Keywords:
set out
«It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
amazing, notions, ordinary, ordinary people, preconceived, preconceived notion, set out
«There are few strong new forces in the world today. Man?s civilization is tired, fed up with war, poverty and crime.Perhaps it is natural that anyone who offered help would also be fought at first. Man is so used to fighting, so used to being fooled.I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.The future will tell more than I could about the value of my work.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
fed up, First World War, set out, war crime
«Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
come up, Game of Life, harbor, perils, set out, The Game of Life, voyage, winner
«I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.»
Author: Steve Martin
(Actor, Comedian, Musician, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
aspire, entertainment, idiot, set out
«There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Aquinas, philosophic, platonic, set out, Socrates, The Argument
«I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
computer industry, list, List of, predicted, set out, wow, wows
«Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Paradise
| Keywords:
Bodhisattva, nirvana, realm, set out, vehicle, what is this