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• The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.

  Willie Dixon

  Music, Mean, Long

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• A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Thinking, Community, Bird

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• Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Mother, Truth, Freedom

  "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage". Statement prepared for court, www.npr.org. February 16, 2012.

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• Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?

  Jenny Downham

  Dream, Stars, Spring

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• People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Hands, People

  "Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White" by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. April 9, 1967.

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• Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Hate, Garden

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• The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

  John Woolman

  God, Christian, Heart

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.238

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• Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

  Sara Gruen

  Leaving

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• To kill the grass you must also remove the root

  Pol Pot

  Grass, Remove

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• The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

  Michael Lewis

  Bible, Winning, Chance

  "Moneyball". Book by Michael Lewis, June 17, 2003.

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• ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  And Love, Brideshead Revisited, Humans

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

  Gregory Maguire

  Character, Dying, Calm

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• I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

  Ryan Giggs

  Running, Blood, Black

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• Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Spiritual

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Money, Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.

  Bruce Catton

  Peace, War, Winning

  Bruce Catton (1985). “The Civil War”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Peace, Character, Tree

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• We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Energy, Looks

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  Salma Hayek

  Pride, Mexican, Honor

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• In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Mother, Dream, Song

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• The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.

  John Owen

  Soul, Mind, Trouble

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• In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Men, Essence

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.30, Multnomah

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• Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

  Casey Kasem

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.

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