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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
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. – Greek proverb
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. – Carl Gustav Jung
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 growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stephenson
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. – Chinese Proverb
If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die. – Terpsichore Lindeman
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. – Albert Einstein
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. – Nelson Henderson
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington
When life gives you lemons, you don’t make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard and build a new lemonade brand… an entire franchise. Or you could just stay on the bus and drink lemonade someone else has made, from a can. – Anthon St Maarten
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. – Thich Nhat Hanh
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
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek Proverb
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright
A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries.... – R. Buckminster Fuller
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. – Carl Jung
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
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
Cogito ergo spud. - I think, therefore I yam – Graffito, reported by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980

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