"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece."
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"I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well."
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"That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together."
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"The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present."
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"The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity."
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"But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it."
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"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin."
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"Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth."
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"No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality."
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"3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart."
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"Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time"
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"Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots"
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"Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots."
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"The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any."
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"Come to the Root of the Root of your Self"
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"My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them."
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"Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect."
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"When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you have something that isn't right, the earlier you treat it the easier the treatment is going to be. That's kind of common sense."
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"When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision."
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"The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny."
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