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"I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth." »William Frank Buckley, Jr.
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"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree." »English proverb
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"Go tell the Spartans,
Passerby,
That here, obedient to their laws,
We lie." »Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae
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"plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give." »Anthony Norvell
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi
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"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls." »Edward Abbey
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"Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path." »Real Live Preacher
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"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics." »Newt Gingrich
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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." »Greek proverb
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." »Martin Luther
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"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." »Jane Austen
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"By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top." »Saskya Pandita
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." »Phillip Chesterfield
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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year." »Dixie Lee Ray
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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