Quotes with root-puller

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  • Alan Bennett I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Ben Foster I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Hannah More Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Brad Feld If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Samuel Butler It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Washington Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
    Letter to James Madison, 02-03-1788
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Henry Vaughan Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Al Goldstein Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Carl Sandburg Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Henry Fielding Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Wyndham Lewis No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Rush Limbaugh Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
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