Breeding Quotes - Page 11

• Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Parent, Usury

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.32, Aristotle

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• Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.

  John Haynes Holmes

  War, Reality, Men

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• A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

  William Penn

  Art, Work, Grateful

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.127

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• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Opportunity

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• Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

  Annette Crosbie

  Dog, Gambling, Self

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• Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Civilization, Numbers

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.338, Inkling Books

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• Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Stupid, May, Chance

  Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.21, Read Books Ltd

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• Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

  Violet Bonham Carter

  Life, Space, Persons

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• ... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.

  Bill Cooke

  Faith, Military, Men

  Bill Cooke (2003). “The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association”, Pyr Books

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• The calf scramble will be during both rodeo performances and consist of children attempting to catch and halter several loose calves. If a child succeeds, he or she will receive a certificate to purchase a breeding animal to raise and bring back to the livestock show next year.

  Kim Carnes

  Children, Animal, Years

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• Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

  Kathleen Norris

  Seven Years, May, Classic

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• Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

  Mary Garden

  Religious, Sex, Children

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• The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Buffalo, Given

  Mahatma Gandhi (1954). “How to Serve the Cow”

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• A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.

  George M. Church

  Beautiful, Flower, Color

  "Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back from the Dead?". Interview with Philip Bethge, Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. January 18, 2013.

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• The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Education, Self, People

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• The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their wants and needs is stripping earth of its biotic capacity to produce life; a climactic burst of consumption by a single species is overwhelming the skies, earth, waters, and fauna.

  Paul Hawken

  Sky, People, Water

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• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Art, Philosophy

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

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• One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.

  Douglas Adams

  Children, Party, Mean

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

  Democritus

  Character, Men, Wells

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 151), 1948.

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• When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your anxiety, your joy.
  You do not dominate. You are not the man and she is not the woman to be used and thrown aside, a sort of breeding machine to carry on your name.
  When there is love, the word duty disappears.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love You, Men, Names

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Motivational, Vanity, People

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• Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

  Donald Davidson

  Confusion, Way

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.154, Clarendon Press

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• The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.

  John N. Mitchell

  Country, Mean, Bird

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• The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.

  H. R. Giger

  Father, Giving, Design

  Letter to 20th Century Fox, theoldreader.com. November 13, 1997.

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• No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

  Vincent Price

  Actresses, Mystery, Genes

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