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"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." »Clive Staples Lewis
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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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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II
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"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." »Ogden Nash
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service." »E.B. White
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing." »Abraham Lincoln
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"He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot." »The Talmud
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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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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"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss" »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade." »Persian Proverb
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"How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be" »Vincent Van Gogh
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"service is not easy but necessary" »Sindiswa Matyobeni
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"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus
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"Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914
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"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller
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"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
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"The highest of distinctions is service to others." »King George VI
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"The end of all education should surely be service to others." »Cesar E. Chavez
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"From a fallen tree, all make kindling." »Danish proverb
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"As the twig is bent the tree inclines." »Virgil
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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit." »Sir Walter Scott
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"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." »American Proverb
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