#undertake

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do. ↗

— Henry Drummond

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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

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I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

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As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world. ↗

— Nathan Meyer Rothschild

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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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

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I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. ↗

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

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