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"The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day." »Kenneth Patton
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"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." »Anonymous
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"Paranoia is a finer scale of reality." »Michael W. Moore
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"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?" »Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
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"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown." »Chinese Proverb
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"A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have." »Unknown
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends." »Plutarch
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"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas
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"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." »Josh Billings
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"When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions." »R Chamberlain
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"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number." »Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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"Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing." »Albert P. Ryder
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"A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Frank Jane, since I've met you I've noticed things that I never knew were there before birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character." »Henry David Thoreau
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"This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple leaf flag)" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." »Sir Henry Taylor
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"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility." »Michael Korda
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"When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well" »John Milton
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"The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain." »David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
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"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." »Gale Brook Burket
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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