#seeds

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. ↗

— Robert Welch

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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. ↗

— Robert Welch

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

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Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. ↗

— Joseph Henry

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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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