#cultivation

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#billion #colombia #control #cultivation #distribution

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#effort #habitual #intensive #physical #voluntary

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

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The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. ↗

— Plato

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The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. ↗

— John Grierson

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Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#discipline #memory #art

I now see that cultivating a Wholehearted life is not like trying to reach a destination. It’s like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really arrive, but we certainly know that we’re heading in the right direction. ↗

— Brene Brown

#wholehearted #life

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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