"To perceive things in the germ is intelligence." — Lao Tzu

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• For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its… — Cyrano de Bergerac
• The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history… — Karl Ernst von Baer
• Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step. — Orison Swett Marden
• ... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. — Stephen King
• True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton
• Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the… — Alan Watts
• Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops… — James Madison
• Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At… — Mark Twain
• The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship… — Unknown Author
• The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series… — Unknown Author
• In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it… — Unknown Author
• At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock… — Henry Ward Beecher

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