Roots

Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

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"It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something."

Men Order Roots

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

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"Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities."

Responsibility Roots Modern

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

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"Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined."

Roots Fundamentals Enlightenment

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Mario Vargas Llosa Novelist, Essayist

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"I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations."

Thinking Country Roots

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James Lee Artist

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"They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you."

Water Roots Grandpa

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!"

Successful Roots Maturity

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day."

Littles Roots Winter

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots."

Art Nature Roots

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,--for the root is faith,--I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say."

Thinking Class Roots

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Fred Upton Politician

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"I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges."

Long Challenges Roots

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Henry Louis Gates Scholar, Historian

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"We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some still do. Counterintuitively, people are now turning into themselves to find their roots. The way you do that is through your family tree. "Where did I come from?" There is an urge to preserve the names of the people who produced you."

Past Names Roots

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor

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"I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up."

Thinking Hate Roots

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet, Educator

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"Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing."

Children Flower Roots

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet, Educator

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"More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish."

Heart Wind Roots

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up."

Growth Roots Weak

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher

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"And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness."

Men Giving Up Roots

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer

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"Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?"

Men Roots Digging

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"Our virtues and view spring from one root."

Views Spring Roots

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there."

Men Long Roots

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John Burroughs Naturalist, Writer

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"I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree."

Race Tree Roots

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