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“You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.”

Way Young Fields Skins Scary Ashes Venus Peppers Scorpions

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.”

Humans Joy Energy Enjoy Human Beings Events Fields Holy Meetings Arise Primaries Encounters Energy Fields

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.”

“I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...”

Thinking Hard Able Wanted Parent Practice Focus Fields Football Hard Work Ethics Everyday Nfl Work Ethic Football Field

Author:Jerry Rice

“It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.”

Ifs Important Artist Energy Enjoy Pieces Fields Ought Come Up Checks Temperature Dreary

Author:Steve Reich

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.”

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Author:RZA

“I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.”

Sometimes Remember Guy Black Fields Impression Mississippi Delta Mississippi Delta

Author:Mose Allison

“The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.”

People Thinking Wells Mean Problem Seems Care America Values Actors Ability Fields Concerned

Author:Lauren Bacall

“That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.”

Earth Fall Fields Rain Ruins Moderation

Author:St. Jerome

“I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.”

Failing Fields Spring Blow Paradise Lilies Hail Hopkins

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.”

“Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.”

Men Firsts Humans Real Eye Leadership Human Beings Struggle Mankind Fields Guides Chiefs Servant Mentor Pathetic Statesmen Counselor Statesmanship

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”

Faith Religious Chance Loss Risk Fields Position Errors Believer Stakes Hypothesis

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”

Subjects Fields Objects Pure All Time Instant

Book:Essays in Radical Empiricism

Source: Essays in Radical Empiricism

“A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.”

Ifs Should War Attitude Advice Fields Battle Offers Newspapers Superiors Suits Preserves Suggestions Etiquette Respectful

Book:Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”

Way Book Happens Together Artist Lines Walks Fields Poet Logic Sticks Thrown Scholar Puzzles Annoyed Thoroughness Burrs

Author:Robert Frost

“Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.”

Ifs Silence Tree Fields Window Toss Hush

Book:A Boy's Will and North of Boston

Source: A Boy's Will and North of Boston

“The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.”

Men World Night House Waiting Fields Bed Gentle Hermits Outer Worlds

Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!”

“But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?”

Ifs Should May States Universe House Strong Results Cities Clear Fields Endure Statements Consideration Division Disagreement Goodwill Enmity Animosity

Book:Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

“Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.”

Feels Whole Eye Fields Garden Spread Luxury Plenty Boards Abundance Native Midst Wilderness Native American Starving Excluded Banquets Reptiles

Author:Washington Irving

“In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.”

Art Country Poetry Cities Fields Poet Winter Cousin Glitter Great Cities Feasting

Author:Mason Cooley

“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?”

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.”

People Art Seems Lost Four Fields Breaths Fence Old Days Deep Breath Cursing Outfielders Malediction

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary

“The field of doom bears death as its harvest.”

War Death Fields Bears Harvest Doom

Book:Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

Source: Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

“What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.”

Life Needs Fighting Dog Fields Bed Dollars Warm Lilies Bark

Book:The death notebooks

Source: The death notebooks

“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”

Thinking Men Should Littles Kids Faces Humanity Fall Dark Fields College Gay One Day League Bigotry Homosexuality Stereotype Adore Leather Homophobia Your Best Friend Gay Men Little League

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field seem sometimes to be under the wrath of God themselves; for, like those who write of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy or on Spanish politics, they seem to become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe.”

Writing Kind Sometimes States Seems Difficult Fields Historian Wrath Controversy Alchemy Lunacy Wrath Of God

Book:The Origins of Modern Science

Source: The Origins of Modern Science

“... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.”

Country Stars Sun Forever Childhood Fields Flower Moon Our Children Insects Lanes Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Edna O'Brien

“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!”

“Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and wireless within reach. For the evening there is the film, cards, or a meeting to complete a day spent in the office or factory where nothing that is essential has been learnt. With slight variation this picture of a low cultural average holds good over the entire range from factory-hand of clerk to manager or director. Only the personal will to culture, in whatever field and however pursued raises modern man above this level.”

“The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.”

Men World Use Eye Fields Delight Golden Serving Butterfly Countryside

Author:John Ray

“Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.”

Years Children Beautiful Born Beauty Marriage Fields Theory Birth Years Ago Fifty Quantum Mechanic Relativity Quantum Mechanics Robust

Author:Steven Weinberg

“What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!”

May Doubt Fields Ocean Notion Hypothesis Amusement Avoided Labyrinth

Book:The works of George Berkeley

Source: The works of George Berkeley

“In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.”

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Author:John Desmond Bernal

“And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money! It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter!”

Ifs Men Children Stills Matter Play Hands Together Guy Girl Winning Heaven Sides Loses Week Fields Ten Down And Every Man Noses Looking Good Men Women Meatballs Hands Together Mohawks

Author:Bill Murray

“I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.”

Ifs Thinking Should Fields Ready Fit Angel Grass Thrown Atoms Afterlife Burned Should I Worms Pits Archangel

Book:The Letters of Anthony Trollope

Source: The Letters of Anthony Trollope

“I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay.... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.”

Men Want Done Used Deals Pay Fields Grain

Book:The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings

Source: The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings

“And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.”

War Use Fields Sweet Brotherhood

Book:The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems

Source: The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems

“With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul.”

Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

“What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.”

“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.”

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Author:Gerda Lerner

“The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.”

“It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.”

Source: Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond

“Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.”

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Book:Out of the Blue

Source: Out of the Blue

“Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.”

Ideas Science Community Danger Fields Crosses Mathematics Valuable Driven Data Mathematical Statistics Allowing Pollination

Author:Lawrence Shepp

“The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the realm of computer-fodder. It is quite exciting to think about what other fields of pure mathematics, hitherto thought to be reserved to human intelligence, might be moved to that realm next. The goal is to put ourselves out of business completely, and the work is well underway.”

Thinking Humans Wells Book Whole Might Science Next Goal Fields Pure Computer Research Exciting Mathematics Moved Active Realms Reserved Provinces Human Thought Human Intelligence Fodder

Author:Herbert Wilf

“Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.”

People Levels Rooms Fields Instant Deaf Playing Fields Deafness Level Playing Field Instant Messaging

Author:Vinton Cerf

“Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.”

Art Seems Able Christian Religious Powerful Fields Communication Spread Journalism Anti Christian

Book:A Nation Without a Conscience

Source: A Nation Without a Conscience