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"There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms." »Philip K. Dick
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"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." »Robert Fulghum
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"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth." »Homer
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"Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff." »May Sarton
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"To a quick question, give a slow answer." »Italian Proverb
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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence." »Johann Kaspar Lavater
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"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope." »Aristotle
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"Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit." »Aristotle
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"It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist." »Loren D. Estleman
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"The grass is always greener where you water it." »Unknown
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"A snake lurks in the grass." »Virgil
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"A man of quick and active wit For drudgery is more unfit, Compared to those of duller parts, Than running nags are to draw carts." »Butler
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"There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe." »Assyrian Proverb
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"When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers." »African Proverb
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"Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself." »Zen Proverb
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"Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows." »Victor Hugo
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"Once you get to the other side of the fence you realize that grass is just ichie." »Jamie Rae
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"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman." »William F. Buckley Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
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"Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else." »Unknown
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"If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it." »Fred Allen
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"A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux" »American Indian Proverb
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"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass)" »Virgil
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"An evil-minded man is quick to see His neighbour?s faults, though small as mustard seed; But when he turns his eyes towards his own, Though large as bilva fruit, he none descries." »Mahabharata
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." »Theodore Roosevelt
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