Quotes with seed-fields

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  • Octavio Paz If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Bodhidharma If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Barbara Demick In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Robert Collier In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Boris Pasternak In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Eric Burdon Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
    Eric Burdon
    English singer (1941 - )
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  • Robert Collier It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • W. C. Fields It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Albert Einstein Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • James A. Garfield Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Althea Gibson Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
    Althea Gibson
    American tennis player (1927 - 2003)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • W. C. Fields Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. C. Fields No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. C. Fields Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. C. Fields Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Ben Carson Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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