A Quotes
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“All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.”
“All fruits, raw or cooked, also nuts and green-leaf vegetables are mucus-free. All other food of civilization, without exception, are mucus and acid-forming, and therefore are harmful”
Source: Mucysless Diet Healing System : Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health
“All fuels burn differently. Some faster, some hotter. Hate is one kind of fuel. But hate that began as devotion? That makes for another kind of flame.”
Source: King of Scars
“All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.”
“All fundamentalisms set strict limits to the uses of imagination, outside which the fundamentalist’s imagination itself runs riot.”
Source: No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters
“All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites.”
“All furnished, all in arms;
All plum'd like estridges that with the wind
Bated like eagles having lately bathed;
Glittering in golden coats like images;
As full of spirit as the month of May
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“All future revelations that are not yet known will be the manifestation of what lies within the soul.”
“All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.”
“All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.”
“All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.”
Source: The Thinking Reed
“All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“All games contain the idea of death.”
Source: The Lords and The New Creatures
“all games end, Alice, "the cat said softly."All dreams get woken from, eventually."
"The same game forever would be boring,"the Dodo put in."Even for me."
"yes, definitely time for something new," the Hatter agreed.”
Source: Unbirthday
“All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that for every ladder you climb, a snake is waiting just around the corner; and for every snake, a ladder will compensate. But it's more than that; no mere carrot-and-stick affair; because implicit in the game is the unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions, Alpha against Omega, father against mother; here is the war of Mary and Musa, and the polarities of knees and nose ... but I found, very early in my life, that the game lacked one crucial dimension, that of ambiguity - because, as events are about to show, it is also possible to slither down a ladder and climb to triumph on the venom of a snake ...”
“All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.”
Source: Elements of Logic ... Ninth edition, revised
“All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.”
“All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.”
“All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“All gardening is landscape painting.”
“All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.”
Source: The Gallic Wars
“All Gaul is divided into three parts.”
“All gave some, Some gave all.”
“All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'”
“All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.”
“All general judgments are loose and imperfect”
“All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.”
“All generalizations are false, including this one.”
“All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.”
“All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.”
“All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.”
Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims
“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.”
“All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.”
“All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their difference from others as the inner wealth with which they are quipped, since among humans, among diamonds, only the uncommonly great are suited as solitaires: the ordinary ones must be set in clusters to produce any effect.”
Source: On the Will in Nature
“All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.”
“All geniuses die young.”
“All genres are worth perusing,” Zander said without missing a beat. “I don't believe in declaring a whole subset of novels unworthy. You never know what treasures you might be missing.”
Source: The Omega's Fake Mate
“All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…
“All genuine education comes about through experience.”
Source: Experience And Education
“All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
“All genuine learning comes through experience.”
“All genuine learning is active, not passive.”
Source: How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization
“All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.”
Source: Paideia Proposal
“All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.”
“All genuine progress results from finding new facts”
“All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.”
“All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.”