Allen Iverson

My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.

American Athlete

Clive Lewis

We were the first country in the world to carbonise our economy and to reap the huge economic rewards that followed and it is right that we now invest some of that wealth in fully decarbonising.

Paramahansa Yogananda

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.

Indian Leader

Charles W. Chesnutt

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

American Novelist

Regina Brett

Going through chemo is like investing money in a retirement account. You feel the hit right now, but later in life you get to reap the benefits - by still being alive.

American Journalist

James Allen

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

British Author

Charlamagne tha God

That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.

American Entertainer

Michael Imperioli

In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.

American Actor

Charles Reade

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

English Novelist

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Artist

Originally, 'reap' referred specifically to cutting down and collecting crops.

Agricultural Origins

Reaping involves physical work and is often associated with the use of tools like scythes.

Physical Action

'Reap' can imply a seasonal event, especially in relation to traditional farming cycles.

Seasonal Activity

'Reap' often hints at receiving something positive after effort or investment.

Result of Effort

Reaping can indicate a reward or outcome that comes after a period of waiting.

Delayed Gratification

Though traditionally agricultural, 'reap' is now used in many contexts where results follow actions.

Variety of Contexts

The phrase 'You reap what you sow' is a metaphor for cause and effect in life's actions.

Metaphorical Usage

Using 'reap what you sow' can imply a moral judgment or a life lesson.

Consequential Tone

 The advantages derived from peace diffuse themselves far and wide, and reach great numbers, while in war, if anything turns out happily, the advantage redounds only to a few, and those unworthy of reaping it. One man's safety is owing to the destruction of another. One man's prize is derived from the plunder of another.

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 But they also knew that in order to get farmers to grow these crops in the short run, they needed to boost the annual yields of the crops and find companies willing to make cereal and beer using the grains so that farmers could reap profits today by doing what's good for tomorrow.

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 That's what I call a positive return of investment. Above all else, what building that program taught me was that when we sow, when we invest in the humanity of people no matter where they're at, we can reap amazing rewards. In this latest era of criminal justice reform,

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 parenting this might seem selfless but it can reap rewards for the males two males caring for babies are less often threatened by the males this can be an advantage the lower-ranking more henpecked males of the troop but it doesn't protect them altogether and it

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 but more importantly, in how they police. The law-enforcement community is admittedly experiencing a recruitment crisis. Yet, if they truly want to increase the number of applicants, they can. We can easily recruit more women and reap all those research benefits

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 The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed

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 we're seeing the same story that when we design it right, marine conservation reaps dividends that go far beyond protecting nature, improving catches and driving waves of social change along entire coastlines,

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 uhnot Minh in the cupola slant urn this created the world's largest sundial and they were able to recalculate the summer solstice then those astronomical calculations were reap lauded in two shipping routes

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 I've earned it I'm helped cut it up I'm joined in making a MooMoo hot rocks all over the place burnt my fingers and now I'm reaping the reward this is a look at the beautiful

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 deep in the forests of cambodia siem reap province an ancient stone city soars skyward