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• The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

  Robin Hobb

  Children, Men, Tree

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.121, Spectra

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• Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

  Heaven, Doe, Want

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 401), 1895.

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• The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Roots, Blind

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• Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Heart, Dust

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.107, Vintage

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• You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Thinking, Tree

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.116, Random House

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• There are useful herbs growing near the oak tree by the stream," Flamepaw pointed out "Littlecloud would come for these" his tail curled up in amusement "Then we could pelt Blackfoot with acorns and he'd think they came from StarClan

  Erin Hunter

  Thinking, Tree, Tails

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• "You look different now. Like a proper little girl," (said Gendry.) "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns," (said Arya.) "Nice, though. A nice oak tree. [...] You even smell nice for a change."

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Nice, Stupid

  "A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three". Book by George R. R. Martin, 2000.

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• Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.

  Jim Cornette

  Wrestling, Blind

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• If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations.

  George H. Smith

  Spring, Wish, Needs

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.262, Prometheus Books

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• How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Rain, Destiny, Tree

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• What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward the middles of ponds or sent down autumn brooks, holding treasures of acorns, or black feathers, or a puzzled mantis? Let those grassy crafts be listed alongside the iron hulls that cleave the sea, for they are all improvisations built from the daydreams of men, and all will perish, whether from the ocean siege or October breeze.

  Paul Harding

  Ocean, Autumn, Men

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• Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

  Robert Jordan

  Pigs, Fool, Sometimes

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.488, Macmillan

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• We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose salutation is as rude as the grasp of their brawny hands, and who deal with men as unceremoniously as they are wont to deal with the elements. They need only extend their clearings, and let in more sunlight, to seek out the southern slopes of the hills, from which they may look down on the civil plain or ocean, and temper their diet duly with the cereal fruits, consuming less wild meat and acorns, to become like the inhabitants of cities.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Ocean, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.211

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• When [Steven Lerner] says that unions and so forth are "dead," he's talking about clout. He's talking about power. But "community organizations," the ACORN types, these are the groups that can successfully organize a strike - a strike meaning people just stop paying back on their loans.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Organization, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

  Rick Riordan

  Wind, Nuts, Patterns

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Morning, Memories, Together

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• Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.17, FV Éditions

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• What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Civilization, Ideas

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

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• The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Simple, Community

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• The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.

  David Limbaugh

  Empowering, Effort, Liberty

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• ACORN is organizing to make sure the job of rebuilding New Orleans is done by the people of New Orleans and truly benefits the communities who have been hurt the most.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hurt, Jobs, New Orleans

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• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facts, Encyclopedia

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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• That’s us,” he said. “Those five nuts right there.” Which one is me?” I asked. The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested. Oh, shut up.

  Rick Riordan

  Nuts, Littles, Shut Up

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

  Tavis Smiley

  Practice, Virtue, Oak Tree

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.

  Ted Nugent

  America, Office, Community

  "Outdoor Channel's Ted Nugent Says "Subhuman Mongrel" President Obama Should Be Convicted Of Treason" by Timothy Johnson, www.mediamatters.org. January 21, 2014.

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