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• Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.

  Josh Billings

  Doe, Genius, Wells

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• Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.

  Charlie Munger

  Loyalty, Thinking, Political

  USC Law Commencement Speech, genius.com. May 1, 2007.

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• Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Negative

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

  Samuel Foote

  Humorous, Cutting, Garden

  Quoted in Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy (1825).

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• All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Children, Parenting

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Men, Dwarves

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• What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Views, Vegetables

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Work, Garden

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Garden, Want, Unfinished

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.62, Stanford University Press

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• we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Sex, Growing Up, Thinking

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

  David McCullough

  Curiosity, Want, Knows

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• A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.

  John Ashbery

  Yaks, Prehistoric

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• If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

  Helen Dunmore

  Life, Garden, Eden

  Helen Dunmore (1988). “The Raw Garden”, Dufour Editions

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• Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

  Francois Rabelais

  Food, Cooking, Four

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• This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• I got a Cabbage Patch doll from my mom when they were impossible to get. She later told me that she had to buy it off the black market. That was the best!

  Jessica Capshaw

  Mom, Black, Dolls

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• The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Truth, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.406, Penguin

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• A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Prayer, Men, Marketing

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• Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

  John le Carre

  Loyalty, Liars, Gentleman

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963).

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• Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Garden, Asylums, Miserable

  "Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

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• After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly. 'notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very wise of me.' She lifted the basket again, setting it on one hip. 'I supposed I won't see you for a while, so farewell, best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!' And with a cheery wink, she strolled off, leaving Eragon blinking and nonplussed.

  Christopher Paolini

  Wise, Farewell, Thinking

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.697, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke.

  Howard Stern

  Marijuana, Differences, Doctors

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• Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

  Abraham Lincoln

  President, Faces, Poor

  Speech, Springfield, Ill., 17 July 1858

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• Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Kings, Pigs, Sea

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• ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Heaven, Growing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.241, 谷月社

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