Roots Quotes
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Land is the most necessary thing for establishing roots in Palestine. Since there are hardly any more arable unsettled lands. . . . we are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivate the land.
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The root of prayer is interior silence.
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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.
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I think Canada has stayed true to its news roots better than the United States has, in many ways. So I think Al Jazeera America is going to look a lot like the news that Canadians are used to: longer stories, more investigation, deeper analysis, less partisan.
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Fear is the root of all courage.
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The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits
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Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.
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Guess will always be loyal and true to its roots.
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When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.
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The stories strike a chord deep within us, ... They take us back home, back to our roots.
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Drawing is the root of everything.
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Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
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I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.
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The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.
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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
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All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.
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It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
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Civilization has its roots in the soil.
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I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.
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I never traced my roots, man. I only know that I'm a brother with a big heart - and that somebody brought my roots over here by way of boat.
