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  The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Dream, Sleep

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

  Aristotle

  Unique, Fulfilled, Humans

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• Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

  Patience Strong

  Dream, Reality, Tree

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• The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Pigs, Tree

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• You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Morning, Afternoon, Shade

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• An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

  Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

  Men, Two, Hammocks

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• An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Dream, Lying

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits”, p.148, Hay House, Inc

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Confidence, Soulmate

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• You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

  Mario Batali

  Summer, Years, Squash

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• The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Garden, Roaring, Oaks

  Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.80, New Directions Publishing

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• We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Thinking, Opportunity

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• The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

  Carl Jung

  Mind, Mammals, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.105, Dell

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• I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Believe, Flower

  Sir Winston Churchill (1961). “The unwritten alliance: speeches 1953-1959”

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• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, Pockets, Cost

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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

  Alan Watts

  Turns, Take Time, It Takes Time

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.24, Sounds True

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• The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

  Jon Voight

  Running, Bullying, Truth

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• There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Marriage, Passion

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

  Derek Rydall

  Destiny, Self, Tree

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• Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Soulmate, Knowledge

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• "What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

  David Zindell

  Fear, Tree, Growing

  "The Broken God". Book by David Zindell, 1992.

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• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Mean, Cat

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

  Maya Angelou

  Practice, Virtue, Oak Tree

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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