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• Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.

  John Selden

  Christian, Country, Hate

  John Selden (1786). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses”, p.65

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• Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

  Myrtle Reed

  Love Is, Air, Orchids

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• The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Insecurity, Collectives

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• We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Hero

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Cake, Comfort, Caviar

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

  Herbert Spencer

  Envy, Generosity, Mountain

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• My own take on it is that government will never adequately represent every person in the country. It can't. It's not possible. It's a multicultural, multifaceted society in which we live. The country, I think, thrives because it's willing to embrace many ideas at the same time, but once a decision is made you will be unpopular with many people. The business of our political leaders is to go ahead and make a decision and let the chips fall where they may. That's a very hard thing to do.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Country, Fall, Thinking

  "Kelsey Grammer Gets Beastly About X-Men: The Last Stand". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 23, 2006.

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• History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Kings, Food, Names

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• One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times.

  Esther Hicks

  Giving, Suffering, Visionaries

  "The Art of the Pivot" by Karen Talavera, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

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• If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Sunshine, Destiny

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.78, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

  Diane Ackerman

  Romance, Ingredients, Twins

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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• Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.

  Rick Perry

  Education, Children, School

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• To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

  Ricardo Semler

  Successful, Quality, Firsts

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• Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

  Julia Bacha

  Two, Different, Violence

  "Focus on the good news in the Palestinian-Israeli standoff" by Julia Bacha, www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.

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• Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. And still a new succession sings and flies; Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot Towards the old and still-enduring skies; While the low violet thrives at their root.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Growing Up, Spring

  Henry Vaughan, “The Timber”

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• There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.

  George C. Lorimer

  Long, Atmosphere, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 147), 1895.

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• Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Suicide, Atmosphere, Example

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.132, editionNEXT.com

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• The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, America, People

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 53, 1973.

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• The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Quality

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.983, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Independent, Thinking, Three

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.245, CUP Archive

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• Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Thinking, Two, Years

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 30, p. 68, 1926.

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• It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Ideas, Done

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?

  Edward Everett Hale

  Party, Passion, Exercise

  Edward Everett Hale (1899). “Works”

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• Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Soil, Strange, Customs

  "Demetrius". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 1, February 15, 1857.

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• Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

  Northrop Frye

  Benefits, Superstitions, Kind

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.442, University of Toronto Press

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