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• Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

  Michael Franti

  Ignorance, Drug, Television

  "Television drug of the nation". 1991.

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• News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

  A. J. Liebling

  School, Years, Long

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• So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

  Prince Philip

  People, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

  Doris Grumbach

  Rejection, Solitude, Retreat

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Thinking, Average, Ideas

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• It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Christian, Gentleman, Too Much

  George Stillman Hillard “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army”, Charles River Editors

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• Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?

  Isabelle Holland

  Way, Taste, Publicity

  Isabelle Holland (1982). “Moncrieff: a novel”

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• As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dance, War, Evil

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• If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That’s a problem.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Stupid, People, Support

  National Day Rally, 1983.

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• Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Attitude, Dresses

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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• As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Blood, Order

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.413

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• Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.

  Beryl Markham

  Horse, Heart, Men

  Beryl Markham (1988). “The splendid outcast: Beryl Markham's African stories”, Laurel

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• Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, World, Safe

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

  Walter Scott

  Real, Men, Ignorant

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The waverly novels”, p.440

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• Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

  Max Stirner

  Children, Made, Propriety

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

  Walt Whitman

  Drinking, Son, Men

  "Song of Myself " l. 497 (written 1855)

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• Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

  George Crabbe

  Disrespect, Want, Spirit

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• Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Drawing, Rooms, Want

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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• Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Silence

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• No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.

  David O. McKay

  Home, Names, Parent

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• She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Summer, Kings

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• Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.

  Ned Sublette

  Cottages, Slave, Farms

  Ned Sublette (2008). “The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square”, p.229, Chicago Review Press

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• An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

  Guy Finley

  Self, Mind, Defeat

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 19, 2014

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• The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

  Nikola Tesla

  Race, Civilization, Parent

  "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.

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• With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Theory Of Evolution

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, February 24, 1871.

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