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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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"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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"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
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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, The Road Not Taken
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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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"There needs no other charm, nor conjuror, To raise infernal spirits up, but Fear, That makes men pull their horns in, like a snail, That?s both a prisoner to itself and jail; Draws more fantastic shapes than in the grains Of knotted wood, in some men?s crazy brains, When all the cocks they think they are, and bulls, Are only in the insides of their skulls." »Butler
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"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases." »Homer
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"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases." »Homer, The Iliad
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"A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart." »Mahabharata
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"After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do." »John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56
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"I think a new, different kind of bowling should be 'carpet bowling.' It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don't know why we should do this, but my God, we've got to try something" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home." »Dave Barry
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