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“Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.”

Mind Humans Able Desire Simple Effort Clear Figures Demand Gains Roots Manage Motive Sole Penetrate

Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

“Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.”

Sound Loss Feet Six Intellectual Gains Roots Rounds Tombs Magnolias Six Feet Under

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“Each time we deny our female functions, each time we deviate from our bodies' natural path, we move father away from out feminine roots. Our female bodies need us now more than ever, and we too need the wisdom, the wildness, the passion, the joy, the vitality and the authenticity that we can gain through this most intimate of reconciliations.”

Needs Body Moving Joy Passion Father Natural Path Gains Female Roots Function Deny Authenticity Intimate Feminine Vitality Reconciliation Wildness Deviate Female Body

Author:Sarah J. Buckley

“By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.”

Men Enemy Gains Roots Conquer Desirable Unrighteousness

Book:Lectures, addresses

Source: Lectures, addresses

“No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.”

Ifs Children Stills Matter Age Young Taken Gains Roots Where You Are Young Age

Author:Russell Peters

“For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".”

Men Mean Individual Religious Capitalism Gains Roots Aim Profit Against Religion

Author:Erich Fromm

“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.”

“The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.”

People May Sometimes Moments Might Understanding Wonder Greater Sacrifice Losing Gains Roots Terror Possession Chains Ties Fancy Why Not Globes

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

“The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.”

World Way Want Heart Children Soul Spiritual Moving Influence Gains Roots Our Children Down And Spread Wide Speed Stillness Slow Down Shattering

Author:Marianne Williamson

“You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.”

Needs Giving Earth Evil Gains Roots Fruit Strive Like Me Abundance Breasts Receiving Ripe

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson