Root Quotes

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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have… — Gabriela Mistral
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. — Robert Farrar Capon
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public… — John McAfee
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for… — Rene Descartes
I'm a big root beer guy. — Dylan O'Brien
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz
Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something… — Dennis Prager
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that… — Paul Tagliabue
When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the… — Lev Yilmaz
The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up. — Frederick Lenz
You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge… — A. D. Gordon
Military action without politics is like a tree without a root. — Ho Chi Minh
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is… — John Perry
From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches;… — Mary Caroline Richards
It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is… — Thomas Merton
Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Ignorance: the root of all evil. — Plato
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations. — Mario Vargas Llosa
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is… — Carson McCullers

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