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• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against… — James A. Baldwin
• We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation… — Franklin P. Adams
• Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. — B R Ambedkar
• The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. — Bruce Lee
• Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. — Samuel Johnson
• Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation… — Lucretia Mott
• Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings.… — Dalai Lama
• Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face… — Joseph Wood Krutch
• No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more… — Hugh Leonard
• It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture,… — Carl Sagan

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