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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.


Walter Lippmann

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Stitch life down for fear it grow,

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SRI SATHYA SAI BABA It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state
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GORE VIDAL I love you like the plant that does not bloom
and carries in itself, hidden, the light of those...
PABLO NERUDA The journalist Walter Lippmann identified in Henry Ford, for all his peculiarity, a common strain of...
GREG GRANDIN Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you...
MUNIA KHAN Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
OG MANDINO Or I will get the best or nothing… no need somebody to swallow my material, I'm already a big boy.
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STEWART BRAND You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, ...
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CRAIG WILSON As soon as the agent puts your name in for your reservation -- and it's already in the machine -- th...
NORMAN MINETA Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL Lake City is not the cause of all your problems with sewage cost. You cannot build a plant for what ...
CHARLES WILLIAMS That one ,plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen, whatever seed is sown, ,a plan...
GURU NANAK That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant ...
GURU NANAK You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
PABLO NERUDA Some people like the flowers. Others just cut them off. It doesn't harm the plant.
GORDY OSLUND If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Best Life of Lives I've Ever Lived :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans,
August 15, 2016
PETRA HERMANS We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
BOB COUSY The plant often removed cannot thrive.
UNKNOWN When the Disney machine gets cranked up, you know what they can do. We have to make documentaries th...
CLARK BUNTING Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR The means available to candidates are hugely disproportionate. One cannot compete with the governmen...
HISHAM KASSEM You can even throw them in the washing machine.
YASMIN SEWELL You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Why does God endow us with compassion?
FRANZ SCHUBERT The Revenant - Just one great, phenomenal picture is show. So if there is machines for to put you in...
DEYTH BANGER I will keep faith, Walter," she said steadily. "I will work ­and teach ­and learn ­and laugh, yes...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL Dare to be among the greatest. Even if you did not get the best, you will be above the good.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The zinnia was probably the outstanding one of the total group. It's a big plant with very nice flow...
DAVE WILDUNG Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile
ADELAIDE HASSE The ministry will promote with its blessings the initiative that will allow the production of oil.
ELI RONEN Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
KEHLOG ALBRAN Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarm...
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CHRIS KIMMONS When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The moment you become content with being idle and not wanting more for yourself, is the moment you p...
LILY CHATTERJEE Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowe...
PAULO COELHO I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant s...
HERBERT RAPPAPORT The best thinking is done in solitude not in turmoil.
APURVA GAGLANI Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The best teacher worries, the best teacher cares, it is the children who will laugh. If the teacher ...
APURVA GAGLANI The role of a teacher begins when he or she leaves for school early in the morning and comes in cont...
APURVA GAGLANI The best gift that a person can lift is the life of his own choice, but that should make a real diff...
ANUJ SOMANY Teachers who do not worry about children, who do not care about children can never ensure the childr...
APURVA GAGLANI The best teacher is one in whose presence there is never a case of ragging and bullying.
APURVA GAGLANI Promise yourself the best is yet to come.
DARIUSH YOUKHANEH You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind...
WILL DURANT I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro,
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
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GEORGE GURDJIEFF Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
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DEVIN FRYE I have signed (initiative petitions) in the past, but the last round I didn't even bother. It just s...
JEFF EDWARDS Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let...
HOPE MIRRLEES The public computer lab is not even close to having your own machine.
DIANA OBLINGER The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...
HELEN KELLER The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt w...
HELEN KELLER The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt w...
HELLEN KELLER The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...
HELEN KELLER The best news is that we didn't lose him. Steve likes playing in Seattle. He's the cornerstone of ou...
BILL LAVERONI My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the on...
EDMOND ROSTAND I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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TOM HODGKINSON We're not really interested in getting rich. The point is, and has always been, to endow the custome...
MASAFUMI MIURA Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.
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ANDREW HODGES Annie, the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be ...
CHARLES MARTIN Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
CHARLES R. DARWIN They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
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WALTER BECKER You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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