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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. ↗

— Lester Cole

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Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. ↗

— Mos Def

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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday. ↗

— Bob Feller

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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. ↗

— John Paul Jones

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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

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In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.' ↗

— Keith O'Brien

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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In defence, I have cultivated a death wish. ↗

— Billy Fury

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