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  • Much the same principle will apply to the territory of the state: every one would agree in praising the territory which is most entirely self-sufficing; and that must be the territory which is all-producing, for to have all things and to want nothing is sufficiency.

    Politics Aristotle 2002

  • I brought a tiny bunch of lilies of the valley, which Louis had gathered in the all-producing hothouse.

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • Anaxagoras and Empedocles considered that the omnipotent and all-producing divinity fills all things, and with them nothing was so small that it did not contain within it the occult in every respect, although they were always progressing onwards to where it was predominant, and where it found a more magnificent and elevated expression.

    The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574

  • [There are strange accounts of a huge fire being made, with an altar to Cybele in the midst, and of deer and fawns and wild animals, and birds and sheep and corn and fruits being thrown pell-mell into the flames. 3] It was, in a way, the most natural, as it seems to have been the earliest and most spontaneous of cults -- the worship of the Earth-mother, the all-producing eternal source of life, and on account of her never-failing ever-renewed fertility conceived of as an immortal Virgin.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • In a way, with his sing-song delivery and ability to shift between rapping, growling and mellifluous R&B crooning modes, the former model and film student (he studied screenwriting at college, hence the often highly visual nature of his rap narratives) is less Kanye than Pharrell, although he's not quite the all-singing, all-producing whiz-kid that is King Neptune - producers Plain Pat & Emile (the former is Kanye's A&R man), Dot Da Genius and the Crookers provide the hooks and the beats.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • In a way, with his sing-song delivery and ability to shift between rapping, growling and mellifluous R&B crooning modes, the former model and film student (he studied screenwriting at college, hence the often highly visual nature of his rap narratives) is less Kanye than Pharrell, although he's not quite the all-singing, all-producing whiz-kid that is King Neptune - producers Plain Pat & Emile (the former is Kanye's A&R man), Dot Da Genius and the Crookers provide the hooks and the beats.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

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