#undertake

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money. ↗

— Lewis Hallam

#five #hundred #journey #land #miles

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

— Harold Rosenberg

#creating #engaged #finds #himself #soon

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

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

#i #law #me #ruin #slow

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#big #british #british empire #cannot #circumstances

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. ↗

— Joe Frazier

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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. ↗

— Herman Melville

#nothing #pay #some #some men #undertake

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#am #bury #coffin #daily #depths

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

#been #command #former #his #increase

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. ↗

— Hans Blix

#armed #certainly #denied #destruction #fear