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The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. — Lester Cole
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not… — Ada Lovelace
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions… — Mahatma Gandhi
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from… — Immanuel Kant
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from… — Leo Tolstoy
Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils… — Howard Zinn
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you start feeling separate… — Rajneesh
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. — Charles Scribner IV
When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then… — Confucius
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must… — Umberto Eco
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a… — Charles Baudelaire
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. — Henry David Thoreau
Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and… — Dick Cheney
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me,… — Kathe Kollwitz
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body… — Andrew Carnegie
I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated. — Holly Black
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.... — Abraham Lincoln
A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend… — Francis Chan
Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on… — Alfred Austin

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