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«The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
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«For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.»
«Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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Reality
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«The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«In front of me, I see the jungle burning; behind me, I see green plants sprouting. We shall merge into the One from whom we came.»
«It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered, human values can grow only in a spiritual soil.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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«That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?»
«I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids/Sprouting despondently at area gates.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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