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Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Hatred, Systematic

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Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

Ozzy Osbourne

Fate, Cities, America

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The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

Sathya Sai Baba

Humans, Human Values, Values

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At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace and non-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives.

Sathya Sai Baba

Love Is, Men, Knowing

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Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

Jeff Myers

Caring, Adults, Mentoring

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Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Spiritual, Ashes, Mouths

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There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

Washington Irving

Simple, Tree, Taste

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From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

Confucius

Son, Roots, People

Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.359, Courier Corporation

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In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in science, are now leaders of the 'science is settled' camp: the only debate they consider to be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee.

Colin Robinson

Believe, Echoes, Views

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Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

Masanobu Fukuoka

Growing, Farming, Crops

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Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

James Ellis

Practice, Accomplishment, Important

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We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable of watching all of these things. Those who practice self-cultivation find that mind; they live with it and they die with it.

Ilchi Lee

Eye, Self, Practice

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Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Mas Oyama

Book, Reading, Good Friend

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But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions. That the proceedings of Medicine are not of this character, in to be attributed to the manner of its cultivation, and not to the nature of the Science itself.

Samuel L. Jackson

Character, Medicine, Principles

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Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

William Howard Taft

Art, Views, Mind

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Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

William Howard Taft

Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Fatherhood

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Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.

Joseph Fort Newton

Powerful, Ties, Connections

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The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

Dalai Lama

Compassion, Luxury, Species

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There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

Dalai Lama

Motivation, Buddhism, People

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

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Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Soren Kierkegaard

Religious, Next, Spirit

"Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 504, February 28, 1846.

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There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Civilization, Heaven

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

Thrangu Rinpoche

Meditation, Mind, Reinforcement

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The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Law, Land, Division

"Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 2), 1766.

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But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Character, Government

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

Ivan Turgenev

Past, Personality, Childhood

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