Root Quotes

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Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a… — Pope Benedict XVI
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it. — Susan B. Anthony
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and… — Rabindranath Tagore
Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take… — Rajneesh
If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop… — Rajneesh
Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a… — Rajneesh
When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your… — Sri Chinmoy
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and… — Jacques Maritain
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. — Ben Jonson
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on. — Carolyn Rodgers
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever… — A. Alfred Taubman
The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from… — Henry Edward Armstrong
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. — Rudolf Virchow
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has… — Augustus De Morgan
'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more… — Josemaria Escriva

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