- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeds Quotes
On the growth hidden inside small beginnings.
This set of seeds quotes uses the image loosely: a fruitful error that carries its own correction, and an institution that quietly sets up the conditions for its own decline. It's a natural pairing with our Growth collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
- Gardener
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.
- Frederick
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
- Availability
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- Nov 07, 2020
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020