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“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”

“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.”

Heart Littles Real Dark Tree Tears Rain Roots Substance Fancy Soil Misanthropy Vapor Pine Trees Rift

Book:Life and books, or Records of thought and reading

Source: Life and books, or Records of thought and reading

“Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.”

“Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust.”

Lasts Failing Tree Mines Bears Conscience Roots Silent Fruit Calm Desert Immortal Cheerful

Book:The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton

Source: The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton

“Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.”

People Principles Tradition Roots Paradox Etiquette Triviality Ramifications

Book:Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

“pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.”

May Dark Roots Charity Pity Touched

Book:Housekeeping: A Novel

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.”

Mean Feelings Cold Stones Roots England Stone Cold

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.”

Mind Humans Political Religious Roots Intense Human Mind Autonomy Innate Conservatism

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.”

“I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.”

Feels Young Sun Tree Strange Roots Skins Ancient Forests Giants Branches Rough Smooth Unseen Intuitive Bark Sap Overhead Saplings Smooth Skin

Author:Jane Goodall

“The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.”

Roots Fidelity Steadfastness Consecration

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.”

Thinking Way War Happens Found Causes Party Situation Bears Conflict Roots Blame Irrational Catastrophe Way Of Thinking Wrong Way Root Cause Causes Of Conflict

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.”

Young Cities Majors Areas Tradition Roots Florida Miami Metropolitan

Book:The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

Source: The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

“We came from many roots, and we have many branches.”

Roots Branches

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.”

Self Government Roots Self Confidence Self-government

Author:Anita Roddick

“Truth is the root of all the charities.”

Truth Truth Is Roots Charity

Author:Orville Dewey

“For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind. It's your piece of the earth. It's where a family's toes grow roots. It's where the flowers are yours, not God's.”

Mind Stills States Home Earth House Grows Pieces Rocks Flower Built Appreciate Roots Appreciation State Of Mind Toes Doubters Huffing Homeownership

Book:Making the Most of Your Money

Source: Making the Most of Your Money

“It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.”

Source: Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands

“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.”

World Way Moral Steps Gone Path Tree Roots Down And Forests Lions New World Pioneers Old Trees

Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

“No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.”

Stills Facts Hope Grows Quality Fire Cutting Roots Endure Stubborn Stamps Only Time Urgency Frost Hardy Valiant

Book:And Now Tomorrow

Source: And Now Tomorrow

“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.”

Ifs Body Action Given Animal Eating Roots If I Could Significance Ritual Grain Filling Utilitarian

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.”

Needs Writing Long Enough Strong Century Honest Strange Intellectual Europe Roots Overcoming Phenomenon Stomach Disgusting Twentieth Century Pondering Puzzling

Author:Mark Lilla

“I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.”

Feels Hair Roots Sorry Obsessed Gum

Author:Margaret Cho

“When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.”

“Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.”

Grows Roots Fruit Assurance

Author:Stephen Charnock

“I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.”

People Mean Names Picks Roots Radical

Author:Sonia Johnson

“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.”

Thinking Book Used History Victory Fairs Roots Indian World History Massacres History Books Cavalry Great Victory

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.”

Ifs Years Humans Soul Hate Human Beings Identity Circumstances Roots Hatred Prison Spread Driving Destroyed Your Soul Being Yourself Camps Hysterical Warp

Author:Irina Ratushinskaya

“See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.”

Looks Heart Religion Powerful Cutting Tree Morality Fairs Roots Skins Lays Core Command Apples Knives Pruning

Author:Nathaniel Culverwell

“Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.”

Mind Habit Roots Individuality Habits Of Mind

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.”

Mind May Character Evil Opportunity Wealth Moral Objects Essentials Roots Relation Noble Pursuit Attributes Competence Love Of Money

Book:The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc

Source: The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc

“The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.”

Ifs Fall Lost Sun Fields Waste Rain Roots Branches Anxious Haste

Book:Jones Very: The Complete Poems

Source: Jones Very: The Complete Poems

“The root of oppression is the loss of memory.”

Memories Loss Roots Oppression

Author:Paula Gunn Allen

“The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.”

Speak Roots Charity Lips Blow Tongue Strikes Flying Branches Slander Spiteful Roots And Branches

Book:Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum

Source: Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum

“A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.”

Sports Team Fans Roots Baseball Hog Truffles

Author:Carol Tavris

“Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.”

Home Wanted Courses Social Justice Decision Forget Roots Crisis Social Justice Financial Congress Financial Crisis

Author:Ed Royce

“The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.”

World Way War Reason Tree Blood Movement Roots War Of The Worlds Our Time Rising Remarkable World War Ii World War I Twisted Pulse Sap Upheaval Stampede

Author:Anne O'Hare McCormick

“It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.”

Long Age Law Growth Products Glory Roots Soil English Law

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical”

People Law Democracy Study Becoming Concepts Direct Roots Betray Representatives Becoming More Oligarchy Electorate Direct Democracy

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.”

Reason Dies Passion Born Roots Flowering

Book:Maeterlinck and I

Source: Maeterlinck and I

“I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.”

Running Lying Power Rain Roots Plant Various Hills Sunshine Dew Brooks Babbling

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.”

Humans Flower Truth Is Roots Practicals Sympathy Practical Life

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.”

People Important War Process Modern Roots Divorce Ritual Rip Ordeals Culmination Important Relationships

Book:Lonely in America

Source: Lonely in America

“kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.”

Dies Kindness Roots Wings

Author:Mary Louisa Molesworth

“Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.”

Book Song Food Roots Kitchen Ancestor

Author:Anna Thomas

“Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.”

World Feels Looks Soul Self States Memories Roots Profound Casts Melancholy Homeland Forgetfulness Outer Worlds Gaiety Dismayed

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.”

People Feels Children Real Kids Past Cities Environment Adults Roots Raised Pops Teenager Hollow Incomplete Like Something Suburbs Movie Sets

Book:Hush

Source: Hush

“Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground.”

Mean Roots Connections Coincidence

Book:The Dream Walker

Source: The Dream Walker

“How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.”

“The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.”

Mean Religion Turns Roots Casts Prisoner Sinister

Author:Annie Laurie Gaylor

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