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Familiar Quotations

Sperm

Have you ever noticed the older you get, the younger your girlfriends get? Soon you'll be dating sperm.–City Slickers

The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.–Valerie Solanis

Sperm – "Seed"

Liberty, next to religion, has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, two thousand four hundred and sixty years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race.–Lord Acton

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .–Anonymous

You never know how many apples there are in a seed.–Anonymous

Energy, like the Biblical grain of mustard seed will remove mountains.–Hosea Ballou

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.–Hal Borland

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.–Leo Buscaglia

The patriot's blood's the seed of Freedom's tree.–Thomas Campbell

If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.–Kuan Chung

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Sperm 1
• Sperm – "Seed" 1
• Use in Literature 3
• Sperm 3
• Sperm – "Seed" 4
• Sperm – "Whale" 6
• Nonfiction Usage 8
• Lyrical Usage 8
• Script Usage 8
• Qur'anic Usage 9
• Journalism Usage 9
• Legal Usage 14
• Patent Usage 15
• Bibliographic Usage 32
• Encyclopedic Usage 356
• Lexicographic Usage 360
• Index 384