"Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues."
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"I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be."
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"The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual."
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"Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti"
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"True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting."
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"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."
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"Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way."
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"Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness."
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"There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating."
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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
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"The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and refuse to let them out. They did not shut away their wisdom and refuse to share it. But those times were all haywire. If it had been possible for them to act, they could have done great things, bringing all to Oneness without any sign of doing so. However, the times were not favorable and it was not possible, so they put down deep roots, remained still and waited. this was the Tao by which they survived."
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"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."
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"Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else."
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"Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief."
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"Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment."
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"Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream."
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"Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ."
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"I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips."
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"Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground."
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"The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head."
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