Big E

I've been inspired by some new people, I can say, from different companies and from just different walks of life, who've said so many beautiful and kind things to me. The very least I can do, is to do the same for others. Kindness begets more kindness. I want to see more of that.

Ahmed Zewail

Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.

Egyptian Scientist

James Heckman

Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.

American Economist

Stephanie McMahon

If there's anyone who makes you feel badly about yourself or anything that's bringing you down, you don't need it in your life. Negativity begets negativity, but positivity begets positivity.

American Businesswoman

Marc Platt

Good movies beget other good movies. So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it's going to have a positive influence on similar genres getting made.

American Producer

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

German Theologian

Justin Hartley

Work begets work. I've always taken the jobs - I've tried to take the jobs where the story is full or the characters are full.

American Actor

Meshell Ndegeocello

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

American Musician

Ryan Holiday

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

American Author

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

Canadian Scientist

Focus on the impact of one event directly leading to another.

Cause and Effect

Often used metaphorically to describe the birth of concepts, not just physical things.

Metaphorically Used

Typically involves abstract or intangible outcomes, such as emotions or situations.

Commonly Abstract

Was used historically to mean 'to father a child', now considered archaic or literary.

Older Usage

Most commonly found in historical, religious, or literary texts.

Historical Texts

Especially in historical context, focuses on paternal lineage, where the father 'begets' children.

Paternal Connotation

 who a hundred years earlier had come up with this idea of question propagation, that every answer begets more questions. I love that term, "question propagation," this idea of questions propagating out there. So I'd say the model we want to take is not that we start out kind of ignorant and we get some facts together

Stuart Firestein: The...

 And luckily for me, that home and the love inside of it, along with help from teachers, mentors and friends along the way, was enough. Now, why is this story important? Because from a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation,

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 in the fond memory of the soily cosmos. It is in the always mingling past, present and future. It is in the water. It is in the powerful spirits and ancestors who dwelled in Lagos. It is in the hearts and minds of the people of Lagos. Change begets change.

Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi...

 Basically, it is wealth that begets more wealth. That's why we advocate for baby trust. An economic birthright to capital for everyone. These accounts would be held in public trust to be used as a foundation to an economically secure life.

How "baby bonds" could...

 We see democracy not as the most fragile of flowers that it really is, but we see it as part of our society's furniture. We tend to think of it as an intransigent given. We mistakenly believe that capitalism begets inevitably democracy.

Capitalism will eat...

 And as one moment follows another, each possibility begets another set of divergent futures. Borges laid out infinite expanses of time in his labyrinths, but he also explored the idea of condensing all of time into a single moment.

Infinity according to...

 are trying to allocate resources in order to protect the biosphere. Going way out, dark matter conforms to the same mycelial archetype. I believe matter begets life; life becomes single cells; single cells become strings;

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 Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next. I didn't know the future of Emma's career, and no one knows the future of work, but I do know Identity capital begets identity capital.

Why 30 is not the new 20...

 Power begets more power, and so does powerlessness. The only thing that keeps law number three from leading to a situation where only one person has all the power is how we apply laws one and two.

How to understand power...

 to be ignored and to be fought at every opportunity possible. The extremism on one side begets extremism on the other, a fact we should have learned many, many times over,

Beget

To cause or create something.

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To become the parent of.

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Cause and Effect

Metaphorically Used

Commonly Abstract

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