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“The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.”

People Thinking Kind Responsibility Leader Imagine Roots Chaos Contrary Anarchy Personal Responsibility

Author:Alan Moore

“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”

People Numbers Known Creatures Roots Crowds Stupidity Squares Square Roots

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.”

People Children Said Facts Found Team Planets Citizens Roots Mindless Puzzled

Author:Wallace Shawn

“Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.”

People Way Roots Theatre New Family

Author:Juliette Binoche

“When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.”

People School Jobs Dark Acting Nice Fashion Lucky Roots Actresses African American Hiring Dark Skinned

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.”

People World Want Real Government Nations Effects Awareness Movement Willing Needed Politician Roots Vote Green Grass Emissions Constituents Real Change Green Movement

Author:Wilbur Smith

“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.”

People Ifs Lying Social Sides Responsibility Courage Roots Agreement Solidarity Both Sides Accord Bloodshed Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Lech Walesa

“Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.”

People Art Artist Creativity Creative Objects Roots Method Impulse Deprived Select Spontaneity

Book:Creative America

Source: Creative America

“The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.”

People May Sometimes Moments Might Understanding Wonder Greater Sacrifice Losing Gains Roots Terror Possession Chains Ties Fancy Why Not Globes

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

“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

“Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.”

People Doe Said Facts Stories Wish Grows Bits Wind Roots Gold Fruit Spread Seeds Believer Soil Convince Rumor Glitter Scrap Fertile Fertile Soil

Book:Phantom

Source: Phantom

“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.”

People Important Sometimes Ability Enemy Our Lives Strange Easier Skills Letting Go Capacity Roots Forgiving Hardest Resentment Coping Strange Things

Book:Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“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

“Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you”

People Lying Sound Tree Love You Greatness Roots And Love Enterprise Treachery Love And Trust

Book:Furies of Calderon

Source: Furies of Calderon

“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

“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”

People Men Needs Hands Past Brain Break Bears Habit Gun Roots Machines Blind Ice Tigers Allegiance Very Deep Machine Guns

Author:Loren Eiseley

“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.”

“People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.”

People Ifs Way Difficult Water Impossible Tree Creating Illusion Roots

Author:James A. Baldwin

“love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.”

People Problem Causes Love Is Roots Attachment Living Things Unnatural Root Cause Personal Problems

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“"There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words."”

People Way Feels Kind Littles Reason Values Findings Roots Hatred Seeking Soil Pernicious

Book:House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4

Source: House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4

“At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.”

People Knows Needs Feels Art Might Action Life Is Lying Wish Behinds Struggle Honest Roots Being Honest Telling The Truth Life Struggle

Author:Deb Caletti

“Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.”

People Mind Bigs Asks Fiction Impossible Roots Intelligent Science Fiction Abstract Big Questions Good Science

Author:Nicolas Cage

“A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.”

People Ideas Inspiration Spiritual Consciousness Teaching Roots Organization Structure Worthy Estrangement

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.”

People Speak Tree Roots

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.”

People Heart Soul Bits Tears Roots Poke

Author:Lauren Oliver

“As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.”

Source: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

“There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on." -- Jim Rohn”

People Knows Want Ends Know How Study Depends Roots Fruit

Author:Jim Rohn

“We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.”

People Knows Standing Roots Absolutes Insecurity Not Alone Poignant Standing Alone Certitude Hearsay

Author:Bruce Lee

“I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.”

People Thinking Looks Two Individual Roots Prejudice Classification Snowflake

Author:Craig Ferguson

“People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.”

People Thinking Mind Used Wealth Secret Positive Roots Optimism Optimistic Abundance Contradictory

Book:THE MAGIC

Source: THE MAGIC

“One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.”

“When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.”

“Sahaja Yoga has cured people from cancer, from all kinds of diseases which they call incurable. How? Just by awakening the Kundalini. Sahaja Yogis don't go to any doctor, they had become doctors without studying Medicine. They treat the basics. While science is analysis, like a tree has got some leaves and are showing the symptoms of some disease they try to treat the leaves. But if you have to treat the leaves, you cannot do any justice, you have to go to the roots and treat the sap! And that is how - that is the only way you can treat the tree.”

“It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.”

“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.”

People Ifs Way Wells May Has Beens Eye Past Used Culture Justice Land Identity Diversity Roots Social Justice Native Expecting Native Land

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.”

People Way Kind Art Two War Today Grows Dangerous Grew Roots Customers All Kinds Grass Venture Joints Art Of War Alliances Two Ways Acquisition Partnering Joint Ventures

Author:Peter Drucker

“Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.”

People World Humans Certain Values Dies Powerful Accepting Rights Willing Circumstances Dignity Roots Human Rights Patriotic Compulsion Human Dignity Human Freedom Willing To Die

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.”

People Ifs Love Feels Fighting Evil Hurt Wealth Ignorance Roots Foolish Making Money Abundance Oppressed Evil People

Author:Alan Cohen

“People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.”

People Character Wish Sides Pay Dog Roots Cat Independent Acquire Pet Homage Salute

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.”

“If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop the desires - and they are together, they cannot be separated. This is one of the greatest insights that has come from all the enlightened people in the world - that desire is the root of all misery, and desirelessness is the cause of all that is beautiful and blissful.”

People Ifs World Want Trying Looks Together Beautiful Desire Causes Willing Roots Misery Insight Enlightened

Author:Rajneesh

“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.”

People Years Sea Ocean Years Ago Tradition Roots Eras Hindsight Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas High Seas

Author:James Carlton

“Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.”

People Country Roots Landscape

Author:Isabel Allende

“Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.”

“If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here”

People Ifs I Can Two Commitment Roots Commit Squares Square Roots

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.”

“People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.”

“The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Christian Church Effort Letting Go Roots Salvation Preaching Heresy Christian Church Schism

Author:John Ruskin

“My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.”

People Thinking Believe Looks Strong Roles Roots Blue Who I Am Latin Very Strong Blonde Hispanic Blue Eyed

Author:Cameron Diaz

“You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?”

People Knows Years Roots Justin

Author:Dustin Diamond

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