Joyce Meyer

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

American Author

Nicolas Cage

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

Actor

Stephen Covey

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

American Educator

Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Tibetan Leader

Coretta Scott King

My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting.

American Activist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

American Philosopher

Kay Cannon

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

American Writer

Khandi Alexander

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

American Actress

Dolly Parton

American Singer

Pankaj Tripathi

Indian Actor

Used in biology, 'root' often appears in discussions about plants and growth.

Biological context

'Root' in non-plant contexts often refers to the basis or foundation of an idea.

Extended metaphor

'Root' is used metaphorically to identify the main cause of a problem or situation.

Abstract use

Identifying the 'root' helps in addressing the core of an issue, not just its symptoms.

Problem-solving

Focuses on the beginning or initial state of something.

Origin emphasis

'Root' can imply the most basic, uncomplicated form of something.

Simplicity aspect

When used as a verb, it emphasizes solid establishment in a particular place or condition.

Firm establishment

'Root' in math refers to a special number that creates a specific quantity when multiplied by itself.

Mathematical concept

Colloquially, 'root' means to cheer on a sports team or player.

Supporting teams

Shows emotional investment in someone's success, often in sports or competitions.

Emotional implication

'Root' can mean to search thoroughly, like digging through something.

Rummage connotation

Used to describe how animals, like pigs, search for food by digging in the ground.

Animal behavior

 The decimal numbers cannot be put on a list. They represent a bigger infinity that the infinity of whole numbers. So, even though we're familiar with only a few irrationals, like square root of two and pi, the infinity of irrationals is actually greater than the infinity of fractions. Someone once said that the rationals

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 he has less room than the guy in room 1. Square root rooms, like room radical 2, and room pi, where the guests expect free dessert. What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more,

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 analogy I saw a shape that was forever getting smoother and smoother and smoother as you sliced it into smaller slices and it would forever approach a circle but never reach it or when he would talk about square roots or exponents for instance eight to the third power he could be talking about

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 teach us that mythology and science are actually two sides of the same coin. Both are rooted in explaining and understanding the world. The key difference is that where mythology uses gods, monsters and magic, science uses measurements, records and experiments.

The scientific origins...

 Signals can travel below the soil surface, too. Most plants have a symbiotic relationship with fungi, which colonize the plants' roots and help them absorb water and nutrients. These fungal filaments form extensive networks that can connect separate plants,

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 rooted in the nonsensical logic of the situations described. So on the one hand, it's easy to recognize the Kafkaesque in today's world. We rely on increasingly convoluted systems of administration that have real consequences on every aspect of our lives.

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 could have a common root to their tree of life, but when you go beyond Mars, it's not that easy. Celestial mechanics is not making it so easy for an exchange of material between planets, and so if we were to discover life on those planets,

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 So the elders, they mark these trees so they can find them again, showing how important a tree like this is to the Ta'u people. And what's important about it is in the roots. Yeah, right there. The roots of the tree are surrounded by these

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 They're tapping into something deep rooted within us. We love our cats because they love us. They're everything to me. She's like the last jigsaw of our family.

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 This is the tundra. Even trees struggle to take root in the icy soil. But life is possible even here.