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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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"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine." »Marcus Terentius Varro
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"Like the number of apples Contained within a single apple seed Each opportunity that we seize Contains an untold number of benefits." »Rick Irving
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms." »Albert Einstein
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"There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number." »Doug Larson
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"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds." »Thomas Higginson
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"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying." »Tom Hopkins
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"number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of number." »Maurice Druon
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"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two." »Bernd Brecher
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"I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way." »Carl Jung
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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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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Hitchhiker No No, no, not 6 I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel. Ted That -- good point. Hitchhiker 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office. Ted Why Hitchhiker 'Cause you're fired" »There's Something About Mary
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"Follow the grain in your own wood." »Howard Thurman
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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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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." »Immanuel Kant
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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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"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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"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ." »Martin Luther
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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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"Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"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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"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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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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