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• It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

  E. Cheraskin

  Health, Medicine, People

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• The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and says: 'you are a human person: important, mysterious, infinitely precious, what you have to say is important because it flows from a humn person; in you there are those seeds of the infinite, those germs of love... of beauty which must rise from the earth of your misery so humanity be fulfilled. If you do not rise then something will be missing... Rise again because we all need you... be loved beloved.'

  Jean Vanier

  Judging, Missing, Comforting

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• Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Race, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12”, p.74, Best Books on

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• Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

  Carl Jung

  Victory, Defeat

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Humility, Dark, Artist

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• There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, People, Study

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• Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Heart, Oil, Fruits Of The Spirit

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• Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.

  Jeffrey Smart

  Art, Prayer, Light

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• Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

  Edwin Conklin

  Cells, Development, May

  "The Mechanism of Heredity". "Science", Vol. 27, No. 691, January 17, 1908.

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• If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

  B. J. Palmer

  Believe, Disease, Theory

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• How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

  Roman Abramovich

  Math, Made, Rings

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• Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Political Revolution, Long

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.52, Penguin

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• There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Book, White, Fiction

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• The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Epidemics, Air

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• If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Jesus, Real, Eye

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Quotations

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

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• No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.

  Louis Pasteur

  Errors, Parent, World

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 7, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 142, archive.org. 1902.

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• And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.

  Julian Jaynes

  Loss, Self, Order

  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book I, Chapter 3, p. 79), 1976.

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• The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

  Henry James

  Hands, Hints, Stories

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• A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Rate, Persons, Harmonious

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.84, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!

  Gerald Massey

  Love, Flower, Eye

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.19

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• Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

  Joseph Joubert

  Excellence, Maxims

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Truth, Memories

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• Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Summer, Lying, Flower

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.109

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• Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

  Hans Selye

  Health, Healing, Men

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