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...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line." – Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. – Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The germ of genius with a definite purpose is contagious. Otherwise, it's pathogenic. – Ahmed Korayem
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. – Norman Douglas

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