“ Dancing with abandon; turning a tango into a fertility rite. ”
- Marshall Pugh- Copy
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“ It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ The noisome weeds, that without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ”
- Jim Manzi- Copy
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“ I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls: I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind; that life itself is so astonishingly cheap; that nature is as careless as it is bountiful; and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives. ”
- Annie Dillard- Copy
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“ I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child. ”
- Federico Garcia Lorca- Copy
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“ Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ Fertility of mind is not what gives us with so many resources on the same matter. In fact, It is the lack of good discernment that makes us hesitate at each thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first discerning which is the best. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil. ”
- George Sand- Copy
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