Quotes with fruitful

  • Vast Numbers throng'd the fruitful Hive; 
 Yet those vast Numbers made 'em thrive; 
 Millions endeavouring to supply 
 Each other's Lust and Vanity.
  • The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
  • Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

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  • B. F. Skinner The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • C. S. Lewis In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
    The Abolition of Man (1943)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • H. A. Kramers In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
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  • May Sarton It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Philip Wylie Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Vast Numbers throng'd the fruitful Hive;
    Yet those vast Numbers made 'em thrive;
    Millions endeavouring to supply
    Each other's Lust and Vanity.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 31, p. 3
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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