Soil Quotes - Page 10

• As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Men, Water, Quality

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.

  William Cobbett

  Father, Son, Men

  Political Register, December 21, 1816.

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• The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Opposites, Decision, Impossible

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1968). “Addresses to the German nation”

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• The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Enemy, One Day

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• Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.

  Roger Scruton

  Moving, Wine, Games

  Roger Scruton (2013). “I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

  Ann Coulter

  Men, Seven Years, America

  "Bush's America: 100 Percent Al-Qaida Free Since 2001" by Ann Coulter, June 11, 2008.

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• Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Money, Lying, Hands

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Tales of Neveryeon”, p.171, Wesleyan University Press

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• Syria has allowed its soil to be transited by foreign fighters who have come from a variety of source countries in the Gulf area and in the - in North African countries.There are some signs that that may have been reduced somewhat in the last couple of months. We need to watch that a bit and see if that is the case.

  David Petraeus

  Country, Couple, May

  "Ranking House Committee Members Grill Crocker and Petraeus on U.S. Progress in Iraq". David Petraeus' remarks during a joint hearing of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., media.washingtonpost.com. September 10, 2007.

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• One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

  Rick Remender

  Pain, Hate, Grows

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• Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.

  Daniel Quinn

  Fall, Rocks, Eagles

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• Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, White, Natural

  R. S. Thomas, “Poetry For Supper”

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• We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Priorities, Promise, Overcoming

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• Yes we are devilish; that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And we turn to each other and stare into this darkness. We find it beautiful. We find this darkness irresistible. We cease all hiding.

  Susan Griffin

  Beautiful, Dark, Animal

  Susan Griffin (2016). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.133, Counterpoint

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• The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fishing, Capes, Complaining

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.206

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• Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Character, Subjects

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.420

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• European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.

  Petra Kelly

  Military, War, Deployment

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• Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Self, Media

  "Video And Transcript: NPR's Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God's soil and see it work for you. Just as a special sacrifice was offered on the Day of Atonement, let me ask you to bring a very special offering.

  Benny Hinn

  Sacrifice, Offering, Special

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• When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in recorded history, liberals were concerned about the cost and usefulness of a government program. These people believe federally funded art therapy for the homeless will pay for itself. That you can take to the bank. But a shield to repel incoming nuclear missiles from American soil they said, was too expensive and wouldn't work.

  Ann Coulter

  Art, Believe, America

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• Since terrorists are pouring into Iraq in response to calls from international terrorist networks, the number of those who are killed is especially important, for these are people who will no longer be around to launch more attacks on American soil. Iraq has become a magnet for enemies of the United States, a place where they can be killed wholesale, thousands of miles away.

  Thomas Sowell

  Iraq, Numbers, People

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• To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.

  Dave Chambers

  Art, Memories, Wine

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• The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Flower, Feet, Naked

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1873). “Aunt Jane's hero”, p.247

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• That dark laboratory we call the soil.

  Aldo Leopold

  Dark, Laboratory

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.112, Library of America

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• Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.

  Page Smith

  Dream, Men, Garden

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• Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Encounters, Chaos

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