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"What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. wood. We're under a roof. wood. We're walking the floors. wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov
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"Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely
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"Everyone wants to be Cary grant. Even I want to be Cary grant." »Cary Grant
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"Follow the grain in your own wood." »Howard Thurman
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"Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish." »Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood." »Ernest Hemingway
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"grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant." »Caecilius Statius
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"grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant." »Caecilius Statius
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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." »Immanuel Kant
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"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth." »William Shakespeare
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ." »Martin Luther
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"How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!" »Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19
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"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost." »Dante Alighieri
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"One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes." »Arabic Proverb
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"Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow." »Lydia Maria Child
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"Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings." »Alfred North Whitehead, N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
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"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."" »Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
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"Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems" »Abraham Lincoln
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"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"General grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too." »Sherwood Anderson
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"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after." »Napoleon Hill
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"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart." »Martin Luther
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"O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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