“ Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
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“ Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ The society based on production is only productive, not creative. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one. ”
- John Sculley- Copy
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“ A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. ”
- Lee R. Raymond- Copy
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“ Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ”
- Luis Bunuel- Copy
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“ The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion — these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. ”
- Jerome S. Bruner- Copy
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“ The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. ”
- David Hume- Copy
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“ Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. ”
- Ben Stein- Copy
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“ Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ”
- Charles de Montesquieu- Copy
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“ The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ It is the sleepless agent of colonization. It has penetrated the utmost bounds of the globe. It has wrenched from the weak their fertile valleys and luxuriant hillsides; and when they protested, when they resisted, it has enslaved them or cut their throats. ”
- T. Thomas Fortune- Copy
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“ Jordan itself is a beautiful country. It is wild, with limitless deserts where the Bedouin roam, but the mountains of the north are clothed in green forests, and where the Jordan River flows it is fertile and warm in winter. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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“ The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ”
- Jerome Bruner- Copy
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“ We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property… Today you can murder land for private profit… ”
- Paul Brooks- Copy
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