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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 still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”

Love Mean Made Stills Problem Age Hair Roots Skins Management Shoes Convinced Intensity Inches Anger Management

Book:True

Source: True

“Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

Men May Made Stills Poor Rich Our Lives Growing Roots Hills Heavenly Fewer Dew Lilies

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout all Christendom, and which has been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious.”

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.”

Mind Made Soul Grows Christ Trouble Glory Roots Contemplation Evident Valuation Strongholds Temporal Things

Author:John Owen

“I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.”

World Feels Made Stills Body Wanted Purpose Felt Pleasure Deals Pure Solitude Roots Invention Parallels Nostalgic

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.”

Should Littles Made Country Law Language Deals Rights Design Judging Authority Roots Constitution Fundamentals Court Resistance Vulnerable Categories Judiciary Constitutional Law Redefining

Author:Byron White

“For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.”

Made Language Sound Christ Lord Virtue Creation Flower Blessing Angel Roots Plant Senses Reasoning Word Of God Disciple Adversaries Lilies Glorify Meadows God's Creation

Author:Christopher Smart

“America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and today it's made very sanitized and white.”

Made Today America House Black White Gay Music Is Roots House Music

Author:Felix Buxton

“He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.”

Should Trying May Littles Made Enough Energy Strong Virtue Produce Cost Labor Roots Constitution Difficulty Plant Vices Soil Weed Wheat

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.”

Way Want Giving Made Problem Wanted Deals Disease Roots Hunger Meaningful Our Society

Author:Mo Ibrahim

“Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.”

Made Century Roots Grass Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century Populism Progressivism

Author:Jill Lepore

“Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.”

World Mind Made Ends Fire Impossible Roots Miracle Ecstasy Unchanging

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.”

Humans Made Important Race Progress Roots Human Race Daydreaming

Book:Eda LeShan on Living your life: based on the CBS Radio Network series

Source: Eda LeShan on Living your life: based on the CBS Radio Network series

“Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.”

Mind Made States Causes Practice Teaching Changed Sweet Taste Disease Roots Bitter Poison State Of Mind Deep Thought Castes Nectar Root Cause Untouchability Hindu Religion

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.”

People Made Soul Ends Artist Black White Tradition Roots Decades Black People Sixty Divorced Popular Music

Author:Jon Landau

“In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.”

Writing Made Ideas Rooms Feet Source Roots Copies Volume Dictionary Oxford Chalkboards

Author:Neal Stephenson

“I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.”

Thinking Believe Made Stills Belief Position Politician Roots Don't Believe Made It Don't Trust Concessions

Author:Rick Astley

“The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once made Europe great - especially its Christian roots - into today's changed world. No one wants to return to the Middle Ages.”

World Want Made Age Today Christian Issues Middle Changed Return Europe Ideals Roots Fundamentals Manage Middle Ages Transfers

Author:Walter Kasper

“The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.”

Years Made Strong Situation Poverty Years Ago Labor Roots Comment Very Strong

Author:Warren Mundine

“Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.”

“That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.”

Giving Believe Mean Made I Believe Felt Loses Roots Guilt Guilty Hypocrite Phony Radicalism

Author:John Lennon

“...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.”

People Giving Feels Should Trying Made Said War Country America Nations White Enemy Rights Position Comfort Crosses Roots Aim Aids Civil Rights Burning Patriotic Supportive Dissent Sean

Author:Ann Coulter

“No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.”

Needs Made Important Given Clear Reflection Perfection Roots Conviction Deeper Noble Pursuit Resolution Happy Life Bearable

Author:Seneca the Younger

“For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.”

“I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.”

Knows Feels Writing Made Facts Used Culture Reading Speak Language Steps Roots Funny Things Artwork Dialect Reading Writing Calligraphy

Author:eL Seed

“A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.”

“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.”

“The storms will come and the winds will rise and the gusts will threaten to pull you from your roots. Let the winds come. Let them rage and know that you will not break in the breeze, you will bend. Bend. Always bend because you are made of more strength than you know, because you are better than the breaking.”

Knows Made Motivational Break Wind Roots Storm Rage Breeze

Book:Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

Source: Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.”

“Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”

Made God Dark Silence Drink Hundred Roots

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.”

“So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.”

Knows Way Made Ends Dream Hands Running Causes Dark Rain Roots Bones Necks Succession Spine Shiver Dark Dreams

Book:Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.”

Humans Made Book Government Human Beings Written Tree Flower Roots Twenties Bills Dollars Fruit Very Good Diamond Trout Fertilizer Dollar Bills Slaughterhouse 5

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

“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

“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”

People Littles Made Said Doubt Wise Growing Changed Roots Seeds Now And Then They Said Ender

Book:Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.”

Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”

Ifs Want Humans Made Helping Dream Body Dies Stars Sleep Tree Return Spring Rain Roots My Family Shoes Nuclear Dust Mess Apples Dry Pockets Buried Ashes Glitter Confetti

Author:Jenny Downham

“Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.”

“Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves .”

Men Needs Feels Made Reason Problem Certain Hair Roots Legs Makeup Arrogant Heels Steel High Heels Arches Bras Stylist Shaving Picky Hair Stylist

Book:Navy SEALs Complete Series: 3 Books + 3 Novellas

Source: Navy SEALs Complete Series: 3 Books + 3 Novellas

“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

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”

Knows Made Two Dream Earth Together Night Grew Mouths Rain Roots Plant Entwined

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.”

Men Made Earth America Hate Black Tree Land Example Roots South Western North America Caribbean Hemisphere South America Central America Motherland Hating Yourself

Author:Malcolm X

“Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.”

Trying Years Persons Made Self Moments Prove Roots Lays Prison Tigers Flawed Self Made Trance Living Fully Radical Acceptance

Author:Tara Brach

“Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.”

Made Hard America Nations Community Economy Economic Hard Work Depends Diversity Roots Workers Immigration Contribution Immigrants Lasting Vitality Integrated Our Community Deep Roots

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.”

“Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays