#seed

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. ↗

— Theodore Parker

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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest. ↗

— Scott Reed

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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#anything #being #cannot #conceive #dissolved

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hopes #judgment #learn #manipulation #merely

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. ↗

— Napolean Hill

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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