#undertake

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#father #funniest #i #like #look

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ask #blessings #courage #heaven #never

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#mission #now #see #show #undertaken

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#laws #only #overt #punish #undertake

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#did #i #likely #research #seem

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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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

#individuals #majority #multitude #necessity #opinions

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

#contrary #essays #his #i #i write

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

#already #application #efforts #energy #essentially

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready