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“Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.”

Thinking Men Way Believe Spiritual Spirituality Belief Moral Christianity Roots East Practicals Judaism Practicality

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Christian Church Effort Letting Go Roots Salvation Preaching Heresy Christian Church Schism

Author:John Ruskin

“He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.”

Should Trying Enough Energy Change Virtue Integrity Ethics Roots Plant Vices Positive Energy Vice And Virtue

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”

Way Tree Roots Literal

Book:The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change

Source: The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change

“If fans are discouraged, find another team to root for.”

Ifs Team Fans Roots Discouraged

Author:Mike D'Antoni

“Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.”

Way Needs Grows Tree Roots Stronger Inspired Branches Be Inspired

Author:Yiannis Kouros

“I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out something that is indelibly you and authentic - like your thumbprint. It's going to have your style because there is no one like you.”

Ifs Believe Style Mines Like You Photography Roots Photographer Territory Very Strong Thumbprints

Author:Joyce Tenneson

“Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of our most archaic roots, which is to say those most suited to the victorious life.”

Matter Today Past Roots Possession Conserving Recent Past

Book:Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-catastrophic Age

Source: Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-catastrophic Age

“In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.”

Source: The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

“I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.”

Hard Enjoy Knowing Roots Weed Pulling Fulfilling Gardener Pulling Weeds

Author:Justin Hartley

“Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.”

World Problem Voice Heard Roots

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.”

People Thinking Believe Looks Strong Roles Roots Blue Who I Am Latin Very Strong Blonde Hispanic Blue Eyed

Author:Cameron Diaz

“My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.”

Comedy Mom Dad Roots My Mom Shore Holding On Mom And Dad Stand Up Comedy Mics

Author:Pauly Shore

“There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.”

Stills Spirit Fighting Personality Roots Host Fighting Spirit

Author:Brooke Burns

“You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?”

People Knows Years Roots Justin

Author:Dustin Diamond

“Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.”

Self Games Winning Imagination Break Limits Roots Infinite Disappear Tennis Execution Break Through

Author:David Foster

“Everyone has a story, and the story changes, and the more I can root into the truth of things - it's so hard - I don't think anyone ever really puts it all together. But somewhere along the way it all became fused.”

Thinking Way I Can Hard Stories Together Roots Everyone Has A Story

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.”

Littles Two Home Song Accepting Audience Focus Roots Majority Albums Crowds Good Times Summertime Dance Music Had A Good Time Girth

Author:Ne-Yo

“I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.”

Art Different Artist Flower Roots Branches Martial Arts Martial Artist

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.”

Knows Natural Church Roots Backgrounds Setting Settings

Author:Aretha Franklin

“I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.”

Want Should I Can Country Can Do Worry Roots Being True Adopted

Author:Emmylou Harris

“I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.”

Thinking Giving Kids Jobs Grows Parent Roots Wings Wings To Fly

Author:Deborah Norville

“Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil”

Thinking Evil Roots Sick Illegal Money Is The Root Of All Evil

Author:Lil Wayne

“I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.”

Years Grows Imagination Attitude Childhood Particular Roots Characteristics Realising Savages My Imagination Lilies Figments Compost

Author:Paul O'Grady

“I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.”

Ifs Father Enjoy Too Much Birth Roots Worried Performing Disloyal

Author:Julie Andrews

“If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you are doing your best to interpret and express the root of the character's perspective which have been established by the writer. There are parallels of performing. Tapping into your own emotional piggy bank. The biggest commonality is if you are successful in either industry, you get free snacks all the time.”

“'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'”

Roots Versions Faithful Ghetto Being Faithful Liberality

Author:Mason Cooley

“Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.”

People Country Cities Nice Roots My Favorite Los Angeles Chicago Favorite City

Author:Bill Rancic

“Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.”

America Strong Pride Tradition Roots Institutions Plant Vices Sensuality Vanity Satan Rooted Attacking American Tradition

Author:Rick Santorum

“I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan”

Knows World Giving Actors Sports Doubt Fans Conditions Benefits Roots Actresses Psychotic Benefit Of The Doubt Sports Fan

Author:Judd Nelson

“I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.”

People Way Should Shows Moving Team Youth Grew Grew Up Roots Sticks Loyalty Graves Devotion Suspicious Baltimore

Author:Frank Deford

“I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.”

World Years Two Father Half Grew Grew Up Roots Army New Places Half A Year

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.”

People Thinking World Important Shows Courses Television Roots Killing Radio Lists Violent Hopefully Diets Television Shows Non Violent Basic Things

Author:Casey Kasem

“There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?”

Past Heaven Memories Goes On Shots Roots Disaster Our Memories Remakes Lemmings Past Success Persistance

Author:John Huston

“Although I have started my solo activities but this doesnt mean I'll give up my roots, SS501 is my root .”

Giving Mean Activity Giving Up Roots Solo

Author:Kim Hyun-joong

“I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didn’t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften.”

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband

“King George III may have been a greedy ‘control freak,’ but at least he was a Christian. The United States is being run by a Muslim bent on furthering an Islamic caliphate who seeks to destroy our spirituality and the body politic of our Judeo-Christian roots.”

May Has Beens States Body Running Christian Spirituality United United States Kings Roots Islamic Freak Bent Greedy Control Freak King George Iii

Author:Larry Klayman

“The root cause of terrorism is terrorists.”

Causes Roots Terrorism Terrorist Root Cause

Author:Pierre Poilievre

“The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.”

People World Important Past Nations Powerful Groups Events Majors Roots Significance Elites Assassination Kennedy Assassination

Author:L. Fletcher Prouty

“To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.”

Way Feels Looks Stills War Self Pain Remember Lying Night Water Sleep Rooms Blood Goes On Return Mountain Roots Window Wake Up Down And Green Trash Stairs Mixing

Author:Etel Adnan

“For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.”

People Wells Matter Path Roots No Matter What Historical Currents Pilots Ideological Passengers

Book:Freedom Summer

Source: Freedom Summer

“The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.”

Lying Values Belief Shapes Roots Crisis Structure Lifestyle Our Relationship Ecological Ecological Crisis Beliefs And Values

Book:How do you know?: reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, science and cultural relations

Source: How do you know?: reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, science and cultural relations

“Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.”

Giving Made Two Facts Stories Remember Three Belief Social Community Differences Fiction Steps Generations Identity Roots Locals Purity Fabric Wholeness Three Generations

Book:Sweetness in the Belly

Source: Sweetness in the Belly

“We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.”

World Children Soul Spirit Bits Battle Determination Roots Harm Our World Muster Warp

Book:Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

“Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.”

Real Light Grows Tree Roots Light Of Love

Author:Billy Corgan

“It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.”

Today Social Building Revolution Roots Architecture Unrest Social Unrest

Author:Le Corbusier

“As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.”

Has Beens Winning White Cities Impossible Fields Citizens Roots Organization Lifetime Consistent Chicago Great Cities City Of Chicago

Author:Billy Corgan

“My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.”

Ifs Way Giving Political Winning Process Simple Advice Battle Roots Bigger Bottom Grass You Can Win

Author:David Miliband

“Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.”

Giving Writing Character Reader Roots

Book:Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

Source: Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.”

Source: Season of Migration to the North

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