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• The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass where they can be eaten by a cow. The ingested fluke then lays eggs in the cow gut. Eventually, the eggs exit the cow, and hungry snails eat the dung (and fluke eggs). The fluke enters the snail's digestive gland and gets excreted in sticky slime full of a seething mass of flukes to be drunk by ants as a source of moisture.

  Darrel Ray

  Eggs, Drunk, Brain

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Wife, Soul

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• The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

  Keith Richards

  Home, Fighting, Knives

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.241, Hachette UK

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• You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stars, Animal, Stones

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.53, New World Library

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• The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Curls, Details

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• But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Healing, Clouds, Orange

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• Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
  The crownless again shall be king.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Roots, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Hurt, Recovery

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• Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3047, Manonmani Publishers

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• It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Fire, Air

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• Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

  Norman Mailer

  Life, Pain, Alive

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Ancient Evenings: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

  Waris Dirie

  Pain, Eye, Cutting

  "Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2013 - Sixth-form Category". www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2013.

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

  Janet Burroway

  Book, Writing, Spinning

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• One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.

  Daniel Tammet

  Numbers, Years, Long

  Daniel Tammet (2012). “Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Study, Pleasure

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.99, Library of America

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• Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its astonishing details-the blade of grass, the Conus cedonulli, or the resonance levels of the carbon atom-also suggest a God of purpose and a God of design. And I think my belief makes me no less a scientist.

  Owen Gingerich

  Believe, Book, Thinking

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• Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Horse, Mean, Men

  "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 23, 1958.

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• The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Essence, World, Sacred

  Source: home.online.nl

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• So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"

  Len Wiseman

  Stars, War, Drawing

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

  Phillip Adams

  Mass Destruction, People, September 11

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• Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

  Minor White

  Moving, Way, Sometimes

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• Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.

  David Paul

  Hero, Men, Light

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• 'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Book, Stories, Firsts

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