Quotes about graft
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Quotes about graft

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft

The Town and the City (1950)
Context: He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo a thousand fondlings, revisings, moldings, addings, removings, graftings, tearings, correctings, smoothings, rebuildings, reconsiderings, nailings, tackings, chippings, hammerings, hoistings, connectings — all the poor fumbling uncertain incompletions of human endeavor. They went on forever and were forever incomplete, far from perfect, refined, or smooth, full of terrible memories of failure and fears of failure, yet, in the way of things, somehow noble, complete, and shining in the end. This he could sense even from the old house they lived in, with its solidly built walls and floors that held together like rock: some man, possibly an angry pessimistic man, had built the house long ago, but the house stood, and his anger and pessimism and irritable labourious sweats were forgotten; the house stood, and other men lived in it and were sheltered well in it.
Source: The Mask of Apollo (1966)
Source: Tower of Dreams (1999), Chapter 8 (p. 107)

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft

Source: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft, p. 3

but rather, "How to live poetically our dwelling place?"
On the art of Carolyn Carlson, France Culture interview (December 2012)

"Light on Adobe Walls"
Willa Cather on Writing (1949)

“6335. Graft good Fruit all,
Or graft not at all.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Letter to the Duke of Argyll, published in The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller (1902) edited by Georgina Müller

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 413.
P.N. Bhagwati Motilal Padmapat v State of Uttar Pradesh AIR 1979 SC 621; 118 ITR 326.

Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa
2010s, <u>Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa</u> (2011)

Discourse no. 13, delivered on December 11, 1786; vol. 2, p. 134.
Discourses on Art
“We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.”
Attributed

Sun Star Manila http://archive.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2014/03/05/bill-seeks-mandatory-signing-bank-waiver-all-gov-t-officials-331500
2014

Broadcast from London (6 March 1934); published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 23
1934
Source: "The new economics of organization." 1984, p. 746-747; as cited in Eggertsson (1990; 56)
A Short History of the World (2000)

“Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.”
Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 49
As quoted in Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention http://non-intervention.com/1689/democrats-scourge-the-south-after-the-battle-flag-it%e2%80%99s-on-to-old-hickory/ (9 July 2015), by M. Scheuer.
2010s

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 228.
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 63
Property (1935)

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft

V.D. Savarkar quoted from B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)

Source: The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939), p. 4

Speech to the Bewdley Unionist Association in Worcester (10 April 1937), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), pp. 100-101.
1937
Context: ... ideas may be very dangerous things. There is no country in Europe that has a constitution comparable to ours. I do not mean by using that word "comparable" that I am assuming that ours is the best. I merely affirm that they have been all different; that there is no constitution like ours, which has evolved through the centuries into the constitution as we know it to-day. Therefore it is a more easy matter for ideas to sweep people off their feet in those countries. Throughout the whole of Russia, and of Germany and Italy, you have peoples numbering hundreds of millions who are governed by ideas alien to the ideas which we hold in this country. They are the ideas of Communism and of differing forms of Fascism. Now, whatever those ideas may produce for those countries, what I want to warn you about is that neither of those ideas can ever do anything to help our country in solving her own constitutional problems. They are exotic to this country. They are alien. You could not graft them on to our system any more than you could graft a Siberian crab on an oak.

Speech to the Royal Society of St George (22 April 1961), quoted in A Nation Not Afraid. The Thinking of Enoch Powell (1965), pp. 145–146