#cultivate

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. ↗

— Thucydides

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I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do. ↗

— David Duval

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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

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I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated. ↗

— Dan Glickman

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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

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