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• How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

  Andre Gide

  Maturity, Branches, Fruit

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

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• Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Educational, Learning

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• The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

  Angelina Jolie

  Sex, Facts, Feels

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• You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

  Marita Bonner

  Feet, Literature, Gestures

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• When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, People, Independence

  John Stuart Mill (1861). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.108

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• Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

  Stephen Colbert

  Comedy, Satire

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

  Anita Baker

  Age, Albums, Firsts

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• Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

  Ajahn Chah

  Sweet, Green, Young

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• The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

  Mencius

  Kindness, Maturity, Compassion

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• It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

  Chris Patten

  Problem, Said, Difficult

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• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Men, Police

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

  David Rubenstein

  Age, Nonprofits, Wanted

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• Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Horse, Men, Two

  Jerome K. Jerome (2018). “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (English French Edition illustrated): Trois Hommes dans un bateau(Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.62, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Sweet, Men

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• The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Writing, Expression, Order

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• It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses.

  Muhammad

  Beautiful, Islamic, Light

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• To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

  William Davenant

  Life, Summer, Wise

  Sir William Davenant, “To A Mistress Dying”

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• A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Past, Self

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• If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

  Dorothy Height

  Ifs

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• Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

  William Gaddis

  Heart, Drawing, Hands

  William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”

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• Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This deep-seated envy was ripe for exploitation - and the exploitation has been running rampant for generations.

  Neal Boortz

  Running, Jealous, Years

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”, p.123, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

  Ryan Stiles

  Home, Green, Bananas

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

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• Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Cutting, Too Late, Eternity

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.208, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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