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Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.
Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.
Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.
Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.
What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow.
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.
The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
For more than 300 years Qawwali music and Sufism have been deeply anchored in my family's roots and we spread it around to the public.
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.
The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.
A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.
My mom listened to a lot of house music. My dad listened to a lot of roots and dub. I've got a lot of bass. It's been in my whole life.
To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.
To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.