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Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved. -- Quentin L. Cook
We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way. -- Tony Abbott
The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch. -- Julius Streicher
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. -- Tony Blair
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do. -- Gertrude Atherton
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. -- Confucius
For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch. -- Guru Gobind Singh
If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land -- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from our midst, root and branch, this physical element and return to our laboratories. -- Henry Edward Armstrong
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform. -- Swami Vivekananda
The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch. -- Susan B. Anthony
How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad. -- Mary Davys
We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe. -- Rudolf Steiner
Live in your roots, not in your branches. -- Nancy Willard
We came from many roots, and we have many branches. -- Gerald R. Ford
We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches. -- Audrey Meadows
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still. -- Rumi
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. -- Rumi
As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches . -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. -- Bertrand Russell
Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured. -- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired, -- Yiannis Kouros
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth. -- Khalil Gibran
This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. -- Robert Fortune
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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