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• Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

  Toni Morrison

  Land, Fruit, Bears

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• Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

  David Mitchell

  Flower, Mean, Maturity

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• Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yield, Discovery, Tree

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• With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Friendship Love, Human Life

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect

  Neil Peart

  Garden, Giving, Treasure

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• I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Energy, Use, Saws

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.30, Anchor

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• When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Healing, Hands, Perspective

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• Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

  Noel Tichy

  Leadership, Winning, Organization

  Noel M. Tichy (2009). “The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at E”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reading, Passion, Temptation

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• Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Heart, Self, People

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• The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Brother, Direct Action

  "Election Day is the Most Important Day of Your Life" by Joe Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Latin, Humble, Humility

  Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.98, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

  Frank Wedekind

  Drunk, Devil, Fool

  Frank Wedekind (2010). “Spring Awakening: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Mean, Promise, Demand

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• And I’ve found that, what I now want the most in a woman is—I want a partner. I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

  Tucker Max

  Support, Care, Want

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• When someone entrusts their heart to you they are giving you a piece of their soul. You cannot treat the soul casually. You must protect, nurture and handle it with care.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Heart, Giving, Soul

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 25, 2017

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• I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

  Jerome Groopman

  Odds, Long, Roles

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.60, Random House

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• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Perception, Tasks, Ministry

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• The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

  Rene Dubos

  Mother, Eugenics, Shelter

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• If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

  Harvey Mackay

  Successful, Names, Individual

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• Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Rough Times, Reason

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• I just don't believe that you can't make anything happen. I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  "Jerry Weintraub’s Production Values". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2011.

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• A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother -- she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them -- for maternity implies suffering -- is infinitely more valuable in God's sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Mother, Spiritual, Moon

  "Alice Von Hildebrand on Feminism and Femininity". Zenit Interview, zenit.org. November 26, 2003.

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• Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

  Alex Kozinski

  Creativity, Technology, Fire

  White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993), March 18, 1993.

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• So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.

  Craig Finn

  Worry, Pet, Neurosis

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