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“I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.”

People Order Animal Horse Army Prepared Favors Regions Harvest Plague Bacteria Livestock Anthrax Mildew

Author:Winston Churchill

“Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.”

Ifs Men Giving Helping Able Poor Poverty Shoes Refuse Stores Neighbor Stealing Hungry Bread Abundance Thieves Needy Poor Man Cloaks Moths Barefoot Mildew

Author:Christine de Pizan

“In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant pond that has algae and mildew and weird animal cells, and I felt like if I sat around not doing anything long enough, that I'd probably end up going a little bit crazy.”

Ifs Littles Long Ends Enough Jobs Felt Bits Process Animal Records Crazy Stupid Little Bit Cells Bored Sat Ponds Stagnant Algae So Bored Mildew

Author:Josh Jones

“I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand”

Thinking World Whole Values Bits Planets Grew Essence Deeds Tiny Whole World Sand Grain My Thoughts Grains Of Sand Mildew

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.”

World Ideas Reality Values This World Planets Tiny Dust Working It Ashes Great Idea Specks Mildew

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)

“You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.”

Time Teeth Flames Worms Abolish Toothless Scythes Mildew

Book:A Joy for Ever, And Its Price in the Market

Source: A Joy for Ever, And Its Price in the Market

“Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.”

Home Dream Education Learning Equal Seasons Fruit Educational Enthusiasm Veteran Gardener Ripe Baskets Frost Beginners Bouquets Slugs Ripe Fruit Mildew

Author:Roger Swain

“As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven's last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.”

Hard Lasts Deals Accepting Imagine Movement Thirds Eternity Finals Scales Addresses Imagine That Minors Bathroom Particles Thumbs Crossings Gettysburg Sonatas Gettysburg Address Mildew

Author:Jeremy Denk

“Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.”

Source: The writing of stones

“If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.”

Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation