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“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.”

Knows Years Firsts Made Speak Causes Sides Numbers Rocks Theory Return Roots Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Firm Reasoning Arrows Objections Infallible Ontology Archer

Author:Georg Cantor

“I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.”

Want Trying Firsts Different Behinds Roots Being True Different Things Bachata

Author:Romeo Santos

“To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.”

World Firsts Earth Science Fire Four Air Elements Perception Roots Wide Senses Our World Wet Hunts Laboratory Great Ones Elements Of Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.”

Firsts Reality Passion Violence Roots Myth Soil

Book:Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins

Source: Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins

“Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.”

Thinking Firsts Consciousness Impossible Buddhism Conscious Negative Roots Purity Vague Negative Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."”

People Want Firsts Kind Said Bigs Actors Roots Lawyer Bunch Agents Managers Fancy Just Being

Author:Matthew Lillard

“This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.”

Feels Firsts Earth Tree Draws Roots Experience Apples Branches Toes Sap Apple Trees

Author:Frederick Franck

“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

Thinking Firsts Wells Might Today Imagination Memories Childhood Essentials Adults Roots Our Children Extremes Instance Radical Feds Professionalism Eccentricity

Author:Edmund White

“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?”

“Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.”

Firsts Light Individual Energy Nations Progress Failing Industry Civilization Blessing Spring Labor Roots Perseverance Prudence Stimulus Chastisement

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.”

Firsts Advantage Roots Endure Myth

Author:Anais Nin

“Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.”

Men Firsts Wells May Persons Use Tree Holy Roots Logic Scripture Ghost Application Preaching Rhetoric Sermons Holy Ghost Discreet

Author:John Selden

“Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.”

World Firsts Persons Book Action Reading Understanding Steps Scene Empathy Training Roots First Steps Not Alone Understanding You

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.”

Firsts Information Revolution Roots Wave Invention Ingredients Quantum Particles Duality Lasers Transistors Information Society

Author:Alain Aspect

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.”

Men Firsts Health Holy Healthy Roots Priorities Holiness Sanity Perfume Sanctity

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.”

“A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils undermining the moral and physical health of women? How else grapple with the complex problems of employment, overemployment, and underemployment alike, resulting in discouraged, undernourished bodies, too tired to resist the onslaughts of disease and crime?”

Firsts Problem Body Lasts Courses Evil Moral Crime Disease Roots Trade Tired Complexes Strikes Employment Dishes Discouraged Undermining Physical Health Complex Problems Underemployment

Author:Maud Younger

“Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First Presidency has encouraged members, especially youth and young single adults, to emphasize family history work and ordinances for their own family names or the names of ancestors of their ward and stake members. We need to be connected to both our roots and branches. The thought of being associated in the eternal realm is indeed glorious.”

“When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.”

Way Writing Firsts Country Song Chance Audience Roots Starting Civics Starting Out Honda

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Problem Reading Fiction Boys Drug Roots Science Fiction Solve Grades Toys Hook Secured

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.”

Firsts Long Ideas Growth Consciousness Roots Train Appearance Intellect Formulas Train Of Thought

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.”

World Firsts Body Earth Together Universe Stars Common Particular Roots Astronomy Globes Celestial Cosmology Celestial Bodies

Author:Francis Bacon

“The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!”

Mind Firsts Wells Government Results Cases Figures Please Degrees Roots Raised Damn Statistics Village Display Quantity Impressive Cubes

Author:Josiah Stamp

“I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.”

Want Firsts Wells Left Water Roots Constitution Green Drinking Conservative Radical Grass Sanity Amendments Dictionary First Amendment Drinking Water

Author:Studs Terkel

“The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.”

“In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspired the idea of this villain, El Macho. The name came first and everything else came after that. We loved the idea of this villain. Ken actually has a lot of Latino roots in his family, too.”

Firsts Ideas Culture Names Honesty Grew Grew Up Roots Inspired Latin Villain Exposure Latino Phoenix Macho

Author:Cinco Paul

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.”

Thinking Men Mind Firsts Doe Courses Lost Danger Succeed Roots Busy Superiors

Author:Confucius

“The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.”

World Firsts Spirit Church Prayer Lord Trouble Holy Roots Flesh Ghost Breathing Get Back Distress Holy Ghost

Author:Thomas Brooks

“I travel a lot. It used to be, when I would go to any country, I could guarantee that the first question would establish my name, and the fact that I've written Roots, and the third question, at least no later than the fourth question would not be a question, so much as a statement, something like, "We understand that in America white people do such and such bad things to black people."”

People Firsts Country Facts America Used Names Black White Written Roots Thirds Statements Used To Be Guarantees Bad Things Black People Fourth Guarantees That

Author:Alex Haley

“"Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience.”

Firsts Kind Sometimes Shows Kids Audience Streets Tvs Couple Dad Adults Roots My Dad Sesame Street

Author:Brian Henson

“My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.”

“He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Roots Bills Clinton Likes

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Wisdom Action Desire Evil Wish Results Cutting Divine Crosses Roots Intention Ruins Islamic Inward Wrath

Author:Al-Ghazali

“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Children Book Helping Shows Lines Cases Planets Return Bed Office Computer Roots Tiny My Children Diets If I Could Arriving Mit Life Line

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Looks Important Player Team Youth Amount Roots Clubs Department Regions

Author:Arsene Wenger

“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”

Firsts Cities Feet Streets Walking Roots Chicago September Motherland City Of Chicago

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”

Firsts Hard Dies Passion Roots Only Love Deep Roots

Book:A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.”

“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.”

Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

“Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.”

Ifs Knows Men Firsts Doe Evil Talking Wise Fool Roots Lots Of Money Get Money Money Is The Root Of All Evil

Book:Dr. Burns' prescription for happiness

Source: Dr. Burns' prescription for happiness

“Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.”

Knows Way Firsts Ends Lasts Knowledge Learning Roots Affair Branches Roots And Branches

Author:Confucius

“Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.”

Knows Firsts Long Said Stills I Can Higher Garden Roots Rate Dear Deeper Height Soil Honour Merry Pippin Shire Dear Me

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“. . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.”

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.”

Ifs Years Firsts Said Earth Lying Fall Waiting Water Chance Half Grew Rain Roots Plant Spread Surface Soil Sand Drought Dormant Drop Of Water

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.”

Knows Men Way Firsts Spirit Names Quality Building Roots Towns Objectives Wilderness Timeless Precise Criteria

Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building

“I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.”

“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]”

Firsts Said Universe Father Perfect Roots Core Fatherhood Perfect Relationship Almost Perfect

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.”

Firsts Evil Loss Sin Virtue Humility Duty Pride Creatures Highest Roots Dependence Dependence On God

Book:Humility

Source: Humility

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