#undertake

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ↗

— Mark Twain

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As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#depression #humor #undertakers #death

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself. ↗

— Rick Boucher

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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. ↗

— Paracelsus

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To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others. ↗

— Fatos Nano

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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#audacity #everything #undertake

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#aim #any #consider #every #honest

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young. ↗

— David Guterson

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