Sterility Quotes 

In all probability I'll lose my virility And you your fertility And desirability, And this liability Of total sterility Will lead to hostility And a sense of futility, So let's act with agility While we still have facility, For we'll soon reach senility And lose the ability.
Tom Lehrer
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.


— Richard de Bury, Philobiblon, Chapter XV.

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Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

John Clellon Holmes

— 1979  Preface to reprint of  The Horn.

Tags: books, things, themselves, magnet, writer, risks, subjecting, mysterious, power

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May those men who are animated by the true scientific spirit cease to believe that they are obliged to consider only subjects of public utility; ...because, one must not hide it, the field of applications, so rich and fertile today, would not take long to be blighted by sterility if it ceased to be fertilized and revivified by the beneficial light which theoretical research radiates and pours incessantly upon it.

léon foucault

— As quoted in The Life and Science of Léon Foucault : The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates (2003) by William Tobin, p. 93

Tags: May, men, who, animated, true, scientific, spirit, cease, believe

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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

fernando pessoa

— Original: Só a esterilidade é nobre e digna. Só o matar o que nunca foi é alto e perverso e absurdo.
— Ibid., p. 289

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This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.

Ferdinand Foch

— p. 154 (Precepts and Judgments (1919))

Tags: absence, similarity, military, questions, naturally, inability, memory, solve, invariable

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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

— Politics, Book II, Section VI (Translation by Benjamin Jowett)

Tags: One, thought, more, necessary, limit, population, property, fixed, calculating

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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.


— Original: Só a esterilidade é nobre e digna. Só o matar o que nunca foi é alto e perverso e absurdo.
— Ibid., p. 289

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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.


— Book II, Section VI (translation by Benjamin Jowett)

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They drink potions to ensure sterility and are guilty of murdering a human being not yet conceived. Some, when they learn that they are with child through sin, practice abortion by the use of drugs. Frequently they die themselves and are brought before the rulers of the lower world guilty of three crimes: suicide, adultery against Christ, and murder of an unborn child.


— St. Jerome, Letter 22:13, circa 400.

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