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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.
Robert Fortune

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
Emma Goldman

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl Barth

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
John Charles Polanyi

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
Ellen Goodman

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.
Michael Pollan

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