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to engender

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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity. Anaïs Nin

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt. Craig Ferguson

Aeschylus: It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. Aristophanes

Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act. Andrea Dworkin

Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Warren Buffett

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