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«Getting sick has at least as much to do with how you come to the germ emotionally as it does with how the germ physically comes to you.»
«Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent ''I',' the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.»
«A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.»
«There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.»
«A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: germ, germs, quicker
«Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.»
«Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck | About: Graduation, Growth | Keywords: contains, germ, germs, The Germ
«If this invisible germ of life in the grain of wheat can thus pass unimpaired through three thousand resurrections, I shall not doubt that my soul has power to clothe itself with a body suited to its new existence when this earthly frame has crumbled into dust.»
«Into thy womb shall enter a male germ, as an arrow into a quiver! May a man be born there, a son ten months old!»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: arrow, germ, quiver
«Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.»

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