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“A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.”

World Looks May Humanity Realizing Walks Practice Tree Buddhism Roots Eternity Woods Good Times Other Worlds Transcendentalism Walk In The Woods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”

Knows Men Needs May Effort Roots Emptiness Masculinity

Author:Marilyn French

“Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should use every just, reasonable and humane method at our disposal to rip-it out by its roots and then salt the very earth wherein it grew, so that no other such thing may ever again take root. Of course, we must also take great care to ensure that during this process, we ourselves do not become fascists in the fight against fascism.”

“However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.”

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“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

“If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.”

Ifs World May Suffering Culture Grows Moral Periods Civilization Roots Drag Degradation Deterioration

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

“When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.”

Ifs May Has Beens Fall Tree Strength Wind Roots Weak Blow Firm Stakes Fierce

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.”

May Sound Style Roots Wit Maturity Trunks Antithesis

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

May Sometimes Light Sound Moral Materials Roots Wit Cures Maturity Disorder Remedy Trunks Few Words Reformers Antithesis Caleb

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“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

“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.”

“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”

Way Trying Wells May Art Natural Talent Students Becoming Reflection Labor Tasks Roots Fruit Perseverance Vain Excellent Appropriate Instruction Pupils Adapted Natural Talent

Book:Selected Works

Source: Selected Works

“I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit.”

World May Persons Said Soul Light Duty Holy Roots Shining Fruit Conception Unseen Sap Tranquillity

Book:The Collected Works of St John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the Liv

Source: The Collected Works of St John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the Liv

“By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.”

World May Christian Heaven Nations Water Drink Angel Roots Naked Comparison Adam Savages Rude Drink Water

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“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

“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?”

“[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.”

May War Poor Spring Roots Fruit Graves Civil War Brown Bitterness John Brown

Author:Fanny Kemble

“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

“Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.”

“It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.”

Men May Has Beens Said Simple Europe Roots Essence Court Gentleman Breeding Thorough Dukes True Religion Fear God Good Breeding

Book:The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.”

May Ideas Roots Remains Strikes Lawns Sucker Sprouts Dandelions

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“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

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.”

May Littles Moments Tree Roots Originals Excitement Branches Poetry Is Very Deep Deep Roots

Author:Joan Larkin

“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

“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

“Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.”

Ifs May Sometimes Happens Friendship Alive Lovers Members Roots Independent Things Happen Coal Comes And Goes Family Members

Author:Joan Frank

“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 need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.”

Needs Mind Humans May Age Lasts Differences Cases Habit Roots Busy Human Mind Contrast Observing Monotony Old Habits

Author:Maren Elwood

“My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.”

People Men Feels May Black White Feet Red Roots Brown Tall Yellow Alex Digging Black White

Author:Alex Haley

“May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.”

May Country Hard Beautiful Culture Strong Mankind Hard Work Development Benefits Roots Strongest Chemicals Promotion Sweden

Author:Otto Wallach

“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 Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.”

May Memories Flower Keys Roots Seeds Originality Deceptive Lackeys

Book:The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972

Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972

“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

“No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.”

People May Matter Strong Nations Leader Risk Roots Guides Tone Dedicated

Book:A Dialogue with My People: Selected Speeches of Ferdinand E. Marcos, September 1972-September 1973

Source: A Dialogue with My People: Selected Speeches of Ferdinand E. Marcos, September 1972-September 1973

“Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.”

Men May Tree Sea Produce Garden Roots Mere Fruit Graves Eden Garden Of Eden

Author:Amelia B. Edwards

“The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.”

Needs Giving Kind May Soul Matter Problem Peace Roots No Matter What Surface Contentment Inward Relaxation Ache Stimulus Success Or Failure

Book:The Secret of Happiness

Source: The Secret of Happiness

“To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over.”

Knows Heart May Matter Running Joy Fall Water Hurt Religious Grace Comfort Blessing All Things Crosses Roots Showers Affliction Godly Assured Withering

Book:All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28

Source: All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28

“Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.”

People May Christian Turns Hurt Church Roots Seasons Theology Dishonor Christian Church

Author:John Piper

“Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.”

May Reality Belief Essentials Roots Bases Accepted Genuine Quests Skepticism Inquiry Belief Systems Factual

Book:Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm

Source: Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm

“All moods have a cause. If you change the root cause, then your mood will follow suit. Furthermore, mood is a choice. It may not be a completely free choice, but you can choose which mood you spend the most time in.”

Ifs May Choices Causes Roots Mood Suits Free Choice Root Cause

Author:Liz Miller

“Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.”

Needs May Spirit Our Lives Roots Ministry Gracious Spirit Of God

Author:Alistair Begg

“We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.”

People World May Reality Courses Individual Belief Saws Magic Land Roots Thirds Bases Iraq Valleys Egypt Magician Abraham Alchemy Flocks Third World Hebrew Belief Systems Shamanism

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.”

May Art Important Self Lying Song Steps Practice Art Is Roots Function Instruments Sacred Entertainment Recognition Communion Dance Steps

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.”

Wells May Soul Running Values Turns Social Challenges Modern Concern Roots Caring Contrary Accepted Radical Norm Social Life Deep Roots

Author:Thomas More

“I would ask everyone to remember, in any situation we are experiencing, that we can come from a place of fear or love. I would say, however uncomfortable it may be sometimes to get to that root, to please take that extra time and courage to come from a place of love.”

May Sometimes Remember Asks Situation Please Roots Uncomfortable Extras Extra Time

Author:Dash Mihok

“The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.”

Knows May Evil Opinion Ignorance Roots Certainty

Author:Grant Bowler

“Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.”

May Earth Honest Roots International Marxism Earth Day International Women's Day Bolsheviks May Day

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces