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"To rank the effort above the prize may be called love." – Confucius, 'Analects'.
"...we may equally well say that a stamen is a contracted petal, as that a petal is a stamen in a state of expansion; or that a sepal is a contracted stem leaf approaching a certain stage of refinement, as that a stem leaf is a sepal expanded by the influx of cruder saps." – J.W. von Goethe (1790), 'Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklaren'.
"Thus we see how the problem of significance is closely bound up with the problem of the relation between the whole and its parts. It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum…
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