Quotes with root-puller

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  • Elizabeth Drew Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Angela Davis Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.".
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Willa Cather Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • William C. Bryant Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ayn Rand So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?
    Atlas Shrugged (1957) Part II sect 2
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Buddha Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Carlton Cuse The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Mark Twain The lack of money is the root of all evils.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robertson Davies The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Bodhidharma The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Plato The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Stuart Wilde The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
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  • Bertrand Russell The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carson McCullers The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Samuel Butler The want of money is the root of all evil.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Asa Gray There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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