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• The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Eggs, Creative

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.

  John R. Erickson

  Sick, Truth Is

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• An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Cold, Sooner Or Later

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

  Fred Brooks

  Engineering, Discipline, Effort

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• The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

  Adolf Hitler

  Democracy, Culture, World

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Truth, Lying, Flower

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”

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• There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

  Leigh Newman

  Joy, Waiting, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Bird, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Xist Publishing

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• Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

  Donna Karan

  Ideas, Long, Sometimes

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Heart, Nowhere To Go, Blown Away

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.46, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

  Nikola Tesla

  Country, Hurt, Get Well

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

  Donald Barthelme

  Witty, Cutting, Winning

  "Snow White (play)". "The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 309, 1992.

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• Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Recovery, Evil, Perfection

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 58), 1895.

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• . If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine or a nationalist one? In Germany especially, the whole super-nationalist ideology of the post-1871 empire is heavily imbued with religious teaching, chiefly Lutheran, and frankly viewing the new empire as the germ of the kingdom of God on Earth.

  Philip Jenkins

  Religious, Teaching, Believe

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Wreaths, Cradle

  Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

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• Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.

  Laura Mullen

  Moving, Thinking, Hands Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your biological rhythms are actually mirroring the symphony of the universe because you have circadian rhythms, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms you know they mirror everything that is happening in the whole universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Baby, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

  Leo Errera

  Truth, Needs, Fruit

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• Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

  Freeman Dyson

  People, Warfare, Scales

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

  Hosea Ballou

  Men, Judging, Mind

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• We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

  John Hodgman

  Reality, Long, Medieval

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Discovery, Genius, Mystery

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

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• Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Lying, Reflection

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.

  Dionne Warwick

  Kissing, Pneumonia, Phones

  "A Divorcee Wonders Where to Fling Her Ring". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. February 20, 2007.

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• A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained the germ of something good but failed to reach a satisfactory state by the recording stage.

  Bent Saether

  Song, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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