Question: The most obvious reason is that being silver in colour it is neutral
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Answer: The most obvious reason is that being silver in colour it is neutral.

Question: Its worst enemy is overwatering
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Answer: Its worst enemy is overwatering.

Question: Nothing can still the primal need of it in man Priesthoods can be exterminated until not one vestige is left in the land mystic hermitages can be broken until they are but dust philosophical books can be burnt out of existence by culturehating tyrants yet this subterranean sense in man which demands the understanding of its own existence will one day rise again with an urgent claim and create a new expression of itself
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Answer: Nothing can still the primal need of it in man. Priesthoods can be exterminated until not one vestige is left in the land; mystic hermitages can be broken until they are but dust; philosophical books can be burnt out of existence by culture-hating tyrants, yet this subterranean sense in man which demands the understanding of its own existence will one day rise again with an urgent claim and create a new expression of itself.

Question: 33 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth they shall not be lamented neither gathered nor buried they shall be dung on the surface of the ground
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Answer:
33 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.