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Letter "F" » fertile
«Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.»
Author: Ben Stein
(Actor, Lawyer, Writer)
| Keywords:
advancement, fertile, personal relationship, personal relationships, real life
«The land was not the arctic waste commonly envisioned, but a fertile paradise; Puget Sound, said one rhapsodic report, was 'the Mediterranean of the Northwest»
Author: David Lavender
| Keywords:
arctic, envision, envisioned, envisioning, fertile, Northwest, Puget, Puget Sound, report, rhapsodic, The Arctic, the Northwest
«In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
detestable, dissension, diversity, does not exist, fascism, fascist, Fascists, fertile, forbids, Grain of salt, immaculate, impurities, impurity, mustard, salt, The wheel, wheel
«Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
analysis, appreciate, banishes, banishing, conducive, fertile, First to, must not, The Art of Reasoning, tolerate, tolerating
«The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
fertile, rankest, richest, shoots, uncultivated, weeds
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
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«The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.»
«If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.»
Author: Rachel Carson
| Keywords:
fertile, impressions, sense impression, The Impressions, The Seeds
«There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conveyance, fertile, goods, prosperous, soil, workshops
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