Roots Quotes - Page 28

• Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Squares, Circles, Negative

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• The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from our midst, root and branch, this physical element and return to our laboratories.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Eye, Science, Essentials

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• 'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Father, Cutting, Past

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• Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

  Francois Gautier

  Country, Daughter, Mother

  "'There Is an Unconscious Militant Dislike of the Christian World Towards Hindu India'". Interview with Rajeev Srinivasan, www.rediff.com. February 12, 1999.

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• Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Educational, Integrity, Mean

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

  John Baldoni

  Inspiring, Leadership, Lying

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• Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Technology

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• Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Thinking, Attachment

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• Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

  Francis of Assisi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Sweet, Science

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• Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, Ignorance

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• Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration..... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Son, Sacrifice

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• Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.

  Franz Boas

  Teaching, Other Cultures, Civilization

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• A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

  Philip Sidney

  Leadership, Veterans Day, Spring

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.71

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• If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

  Tom Lehrer

  Commitment, Squares, Two

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• They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

  John Calvin

  Angel, Godly, Office

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• The future has taken root in the present.

  Nicol Williamson

  Dream, Taken, Vision

  "Fictional character: Merlin". "Excalibur", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• A man without any history is like a tree without roots

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Consciousness, Certain

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or the hearts of the chakras. Within these hearts are seals which control exchange of energy between layers of the aura through that chakra. That is, each of the seven chakras has seven layers, each corresponding to a layer of the auric field.

  Barbara Brennan

  Heart, Seven Chakras, Layers

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• Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

  Charlie Cook

  Nature, Where You Live, Matter

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• There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.

  Thomas Merton

  Mother, Nature, Integrity

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• We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Lying, Terrorism

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• We would root out terrorism if the BSP comes to the centre

  Mayawati

  Terrorism, Centre, Ifs

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• The roots of art and play lie very close together.

  Angus Wilson

  Art, Lying, Play

  Angus Wilson (2012). “No Laughing Matter”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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