“ There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. ”
- Irving Batcheller- Copy
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“ I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ Still, still my eye will gaze long fixed on thee, Till I forget that I am called a man, And at thy side fast-rooted seem to be, And the breeze comes my cheek with thine to fan. ”
- Jones Very- Copy
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“ Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. ”
- Walter Gilbert- Copy
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“ While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities. ”
- Bernard Weisberger- Copy
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“ His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
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“ Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like? ”
- Josh Brand and John Falsey- Copy
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“ Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot. ”
- Mitchell Burgess- Copy
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“ Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers. ”
- Rollo May- 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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“ It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. ”
- Phyllis George- Copy
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“ The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden — as an unpatriotic act — that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can…in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation — it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
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“ White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious. ”
- Jane Elliott- Copy
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