Germs Quotes - Page 9

• Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Taken, Sleep, Knights

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• Germs do not have a political party.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Political, Political Parties

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• When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.

  Bill Maher

  Night, Men, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Long, Mind, Fever

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Apples, Teeth, Poison

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• And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

  Stephen King

  Mean, People, Mind

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1578, Anchor

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• The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• And priests dare babble of a God of peace,
  Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood,
  Murdering the while, uprooting every germ
  Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all,
  Making the earth a slaughter - house!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blood, Hands, House

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

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• The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

  Annie Besant

  Success, Yoga, Impossible Things

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.884, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Animal, Whales

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

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• The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Tree, Progress

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.54, Hackett Publishing

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• The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Animal, Light, Organization

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• ... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

  Stephen King

  Suicide, Suicidal, Air

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.831, Simon and Schuster

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• True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Greatness, Ignorant

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  Inspirational, War, Army

  "Political Observations" by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. April 20, 1795.

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• When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down to a perfectly normal state; and invigorating the vital powers, expels all foreign matters- the germs of diseases-by natural ways (perspiration and so forth). It thereby makes man perfectly healthy in body and mind, And enables him to understand properly the guidance of Nature.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Love, Heart, Men

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• The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience

  John Timbs

  Nature, Science, Simple

  John Timbs (2012). “Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts”, p.212, BoD – Books on Demand

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• If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if they do get into your body, unless it is nice and acidic, they can't grow and multiply and make you sick - or kill you.

  Robert O. Young

  Nice, Sick, Body

  Robert O. Young, Shelley Redford Young (2008). “The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Night, Government, Crow

  Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821.

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• Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet
  1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods
  2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain
  3. Avoid salty and sugary foods
  4. Cut down on sugar
  5. Emphasize whole grains
  6. Beware of alcohol
  7. Emphasize the Healthy Five:
  Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds
  Sprouted seeds such as soybeans
  Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ
  Yogurt and kefir
  Fresh fruits and vegetables

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Cutting, Vegetables

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• Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.

  Cate Blanchett

  Inspiration, Journey, Practice

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• Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out

  Gregg Braden

  Our World, Odds, Doors

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• The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Writing, Simple, Stories

  Malcolm Cowley (1978). “And I worked at the writer's trade: chapters of literary history, 1918-1978”, Viking Adult

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• Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Soul, Wilderness

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