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• Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Land, Support, Arrogance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2253, Library of Alexandria

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• I think it's very important to really find the wheat amidst the chafe and not give into superficialities, to not get caught up the commercialism or the fads, you know, the "over-popularization" of some things that we might see today. That doesn't mean we have to throw out the Buddha with the bath water, it's not all bad.

  Surya Das

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.

  Thomas Merton

  Pieces, World, Mouths

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• A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life. To begin with, the very word "risk" implies worry, and people who worry about every bite of food, sip of water, the air they breathe, the gym sessions they have missed, and the minutiae of vitamin doses are not sending positive signals to their cells. A stressful day sends constant negative messaging to the feedback loop and popping a vitamin pill or choosing whole wheat bread instead of white bread does close to zero to change that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Zero, Air, Cells

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

  John Bunyan

  Use, Lord, Tribulation

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• The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Boys, Discipline

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• If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil.

  Jorge Cruise

  Evil, Weight, Want

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• Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.

  Leonard Lauder

  Morning, Yogurt, Peaches

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• The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

  Thomas Traherne

  Corn, Should, Immortal

  'Centuries of Meditations' Century 3, 3

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• Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

  Socrates

  Ignorant, Problem, Qualified

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• Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

  Austin O'Malley

  Art, Wheat Fields, Imagination

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• Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Editors, Separation

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• The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Hands, Heaven

  "The Works of Aurelius Augustine: A New Translation".

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• Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Causes

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• As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Aging

  "Report From Part One". Book by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1972.

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• Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Love Is, Two

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• Fitness has always been a big part of my life, so I train twice a day, every day, as I always have done, but also eating very healthfully. I don't eat sugar, I don't have caffeine, I don't eat wheat - I look after my body outside and inside. It's just a part of who I've always been.

  Neil Jackson

  Looks, Done, Body

  "Sleepy Hollow’s Neil Jackson: Embracing Passion and Health". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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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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• Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

  Richard Whately

  Distance, Men, Reputation

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.248

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• How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

  Ben Shahn

  Sky, Yellow, Black

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• Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

  Sinclair Lewis

  War, Race, Hatred

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.143, Penguin

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• Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

  Horace Mann

  Book, Wheat Fields, Land

  "Horace Mann at Antioch".

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• Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread.

  Edward M Hays

  Simple, Expression, Behaviour

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• My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.

  Serena Williams

  Kale, Vegetables, Water

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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• There may be different channels of approach, yes. For not all peoples walked in the field when the wheat was ripe. Neither did all stand at the tomb when Lazarus was called forth. Neither were they all present when He walked on the water, nor when He fed the five thousand, nor when He hung on the Cross. Yet each experience answered, and does answer to something within each individual soul-entity. For each soul is a corpuscle in the body of God.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Water, Soul

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