Fruit quotes
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"I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?"
"False words do not bring forth fruit."
"I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win."
"It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour."
"Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident."
"Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit."
"The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection."
"When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa."
"According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit."
"I try to eat fruit and be healthy."
"I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit."
"The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet."
"As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all."
"Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking."
"Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?"
"Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening."
"He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed."
"There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process."
"That’s when she’d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily."
"I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit."
