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“The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness.”

World Mind Littles Long Hard Whole Night Realizing Morning Objects Return Solitude Roots Sight Fruit Hearing Going Away Worldly Meditating Aloof Brahman Worldliness

Author:Ramakrishna

“Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.”

Long Whole Community Roots Rap Hispanic

Author:Archie Shepp

“You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.”

People Needs Long Certain Laughing Creative Roots Originals Artistic Funniness

Author:Jason Gann

“I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.”

Trying Long Enough Given Women Mystery Roots Mere Squares Quantity Introduction Given Up Square Roots

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .”

Ifs Should Long States Able Natural Balance Roots Anarchy Catastrophe Anarchism Deep Roots Overtaking

Author:John Zerzan

“Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.”

Years May Long Earth Life Is Sea Stones Roots Busy Miles Beach Streams Soil Throwing Coast Floats Minerals Strands Granite Boulders

Author:Bill Mollison

“As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty.”

Should Long Important States Duty Concern Roots Regard Cooperation Fascism Aggression Strengthening Vigilance

Author:Vyacheslav Molotov

“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?”

“Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.”

Men Long States Consciousness Conscious Roots Unconscious Persist

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“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

“If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!”

“The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.”

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.”

“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves-- Hides her fruit under them, hard to find. . . . . But by and by, when the flowers grow few And the fruits are dwindling and small to view-- Out she comes in her matron grace With the purple myriads of her race; Full of plenty from root to crown, Showering plenty her feet adown. While far over head hang gorgeously Large luscious berries of sanguine dye, For the best grows highest, always highest, Upon the mulberry-tree.”

Long Hard Grows Views Race Grace Tree Feet Flower Clothes Highest Roots Green Fruit Stealing Plenty Perceive Queens Crowns Purple Berries Sanguine Mulberry

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“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.

“I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.”

Thinking Want Believe Wells Long Ideas Seems Talking Audience Roots Tests Meetings Studios Actresses Dishes Sympathetic

Author:Kristen Stewart

“A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.”

Long Use Four Feet Tools Roots Soil Flats Weed Digging Forks Nudge Stout

Author:Sara Bonnett Stein

“Zerts' are what I call desserts. 'Trée-trées' are entrées. I call sandwiches 'sammies,' 'sandoozles,' or 'Adam Sandlers.' Air conditioners are 'cool blasterz' with a 'z' - I don't know where that came from. I call cakes 'big ol' cookies.' I call noodles 'long-ass rice.' Fried chicken is 'fry-fry chicky-chick.' Chicken parm is 'chicky-chicky-parm-parm.' Chicken cacciatore? 'Chicky-cacc.' I call eggs 'pre-birds,' or 'future birds.' Root beer is 'super water.' Tortillas are 'bean blankets.' And I call forks 'food rakes.'”

“I have the greatest appreciation for [producers] Matt Alvarez and Ice Cube. They put me in Friday after Next, and now this, which I hope is just the start of a long, wonderful relationship. I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business. Those are my roots. I'll always love doing those.”

Long Next Fun Comedy Wonderful Roots Appreciation Producers Ice Having Fun Urban Friday Cubes

Author:Terry Crews

“I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.”

Trying Looks Long Doe Problem Bigs Causes Term Can Do Realizing Views Roots Strategy Long Term Philanthropy Big Problems Root Cause

Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

“They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.”

World Long Causes Interest Middle Security Essentials Areas Roots Affair Terror Oil East Islamic Middle East Involvement Arab World Dialectics Root Cause

Author:Edward Said

“Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.”

Looks Long Ideas Humanity Situation Known Strange Long Time Roots Deeper Documents Fractals

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.”

People Thinking Should Long Stills Character Black Roots Should Have Slavery Trade Slave Shocking Insulting Dutch Relics Education And Knowledge Slave Trade Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“[CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation under Zia and taking away the long standing rights of people in the tribal areas [who were left largely alone].”

People Long Left Rights Development Areas Standing Roots Affair Horrible Radical Internals Phenomenon Cia

Author:Noam Chomsky

“[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.”

World Long Interest Middle Security Essentials Areas Roots Affair Terrorism Oil East Islamic Middle East Involvement Arab World Dialectics

Author:Edward Said

“I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.”

People Thinking Long Strong Felt Happened Periods Roots Communism Revolutionary Afghanistan Very Strong Strain Extremism Very Deep Long Periods Of Time Somalia Yemen

Author:Tony Blair

“Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested in ancestry and become very good at what was just a hobby. But I think that we shouldn't wait quite that long to develop and look for those parallel interests of ours and not sometimes see them as frivolous and take them a little more seriously, and spend some time and energy and maybe even capital in pursuing them.”

People Thinking Way Looks Littles Long Sometimes Energy Waiting Interest Roots Very Good Hobbies Parallels Get Real Ancestry Frivolous Time And Energy

Author:Darold Treffert

“Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants.”

People Want Writing Long Character Stories Fiction Alive Roots Intense Setting Settings Provoking Demonic Invigorating

Author:James Lasdun

“I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.”

Knows Long Care Term Challenges Cost Roots Health Care Long Term Exploding

Author:Fred Upton

“If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said Yavanna, "and each contributes to the worth of the others. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon their bough little mourned in their passing. So I see in my thought, would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!”

Ifs Littles Long Said Might Speak Grows Pay Growing Tree All Things Roots Fruit Dear Passing Passings Realms Reserves My Thoughts Behalf Tolls

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.”

People Ifs Humans May Children Long Earth Nature Generations Human Nature Roots Fortune Series Strikes My Children Soil Worn Potatoes Worn Out Birthplace

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.”

Way Mean Long Hard Use Feelings Running Form Used Certain Perfect Understood Standing Roots Guilt Karma Practicals Things To Do Necks Going Away Imperfect Hard Things Too Deep

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.”

World Long Play Force Social Powerful Attitude Roles Generations Economic Conditions Behavior Roots Legacy Make Sense Our World Persist Long Life Demographics Outliers Deep Roots

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.”

Wells Long Fall Growth Summer Spring Roots Seasons Winter Fall And Winter

Book:Being There

Source: Being There

“Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen.”

Feels Long Has Beens Made Happens Pain Lying Left Interest Realizing Journey Land Return Long Time Roots Stranger Treasure Without Pain Long Journey Witch Of Portobello

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land”

Source: The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

“And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.”

Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

“He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.”

Needs Feels Heart Long Hard Earth Felt Sides Tree Summer Roots Horse Filled Ships Evening Riding Floating Spine Oaks Deck Gale Oak Tree Amorous Tumbling Great Horse

Book:Orlando

Source: Orlando

“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”

Ifs Long Action Evil Trouble Tree Effects Cost Roots Visible Posterity Hardwood

Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”

Way Looks Mean Long Stills Matter Suffering Break Alive Thousand Roots Towns Metaphor Careful Ships Grass Strings Be Careful You Choose Shortage

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“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

“I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”

Looks Long Said Three Father Voice Water White Growing Heard Roots Plant Fingers Finding Yourself Tall Mud Potatoes Handful Digging Petals Katniss Plants Growing

Book:The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.”

Long Strong Tree Broken Kings Stones Roots Winter Like Me Thrones Winterfell

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can’t budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?” God’s seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.”

Ifs Heart May Long I Can Shows Father Grows Walks Tree Rocks Roots Guilt Greed Seeds Dry Soil Confession Fence Inviting

Book:In the Grip of Grace -: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.

Source: In the Grip of Grace -: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.

“Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last.”

Long Made Home Might Able Lasts Given Known Cutting Brother Reflection Roots Warrior Despise Making Peace Legendary Residence Grimm Quinn

Book:The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

“The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light.”

Source: The Princess Treasury

“Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.”

Long Stills Alive Roots Towns Grass Shortage

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.”

Long Government Form Results Effort Roots Army Endeavor Sequence Forms Of Government Shared Experiences

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

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