
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
2000s
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
2000s
“We came from many roots, and we have many branches.”
1970s, State of the Union Address (1975)
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
(J. Hudson Taylor. Dwelling in Him. Robesonia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
“What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 11
Context: What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds "body feel" and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
1853
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
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Source: Stray Birds (1916)
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
Walden (1854)
Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Context: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.<!--p.87