Roots

George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic

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"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."

Roots Virtue Economy

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer

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"I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity"

Giving Roots Identity

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James Freeman Clarke Clergyman, Author

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"Conscience is the root of all true courage."

Roots Courage Conscience

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Leon Brown Artist

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"Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep."

Life Pain Roots

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George Leonard Philosopher

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"At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us."

Play Roots Rhythm

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist

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"The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil."

Long Evil Roots

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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet

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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."

Philosophy Wisdom Roots

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

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"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything."

Men Flower Roots

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician

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"It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions."

Roots Food Cooking

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer

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"For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth."

Growth Roots Crowns

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John Burroughs Naturalist, Writer

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"Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it."

Men Communication Roots

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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary

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"The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership."

Organization Roots Foundation

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet

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"For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation."

Giving Tree Roots

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist

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"Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for."

Writing Character Roots

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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat

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"Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent."

Dream Land Roots

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar

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"The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal."

Heaven Flower Roots

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Paulo Coelho Writer

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"God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots."

Life Inspiration Roots

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

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"Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery."

Race Happiness Roots

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Edward Young Poet, Playwright

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"Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root."

Time Roots Empires

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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer

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"Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes."

Home Roots Yesterday

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