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• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Uplifting, Nature, Stars

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.78

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• We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

  Adam Riess

  Fall, Tree, Daily Life

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• I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!

  Viktor Schauberger

  Thinking, Firsts, Newton

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.50, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Beautiful, Girl, Struggle

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• Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

  Homer

  Lying, Garden, Blue

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• If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God's hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Order, Hands, Tree

  "The God I Believe In: What Jews Still Believe a Survey of Contemporary Jewish Spirituality In Conversation with Leading Jewish Philosophers, Writers and Rabbis". Book by Joshua O. Haberman, 1994.

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• God bless my soul! No apple pie.

  Robert Oliver

  Food, Blessed, Pie

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• When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intellectual, Delight, Tricks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.239

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• Now there she goes again, the dopest Ethiopian,
  And now the world around me be gets movin in slow motion
  Whenever she happens to walk by, why does the apple of my eye
  Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try?

  Fatlip

  Rap, Eye, Hip Hop

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• The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

  John Updike

  Football, Mother, Morning

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• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

  Robert Lowell

  Water, Dawn, Twenties

  Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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• Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Rain, School

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• Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

  Max Lucado

  Forgiveness, People, Tree

  Max Lucado (2012). “Make Every Day Count - Teen Edition: Wake Up and Live!”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs, Taught Us, Goal

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• Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Animal, Play

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• You just kind of go and do your own thing. Sometimes it's really hard to compare apples and oranges, so you don't really think of it that way. You just perform to your fullest potential and hope everybody else does too. And however it works out, it works out.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Thinking, Orange, Work Out

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• Early Apple machines - don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.

  Bob Frankston

  Memories, Trying, Tools

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• My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.

  Jessica Livingston

  Skills, Knowing, People

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• I have my mother's hips...I have an apple bottom.

  Brendon Urie

  Mother, Hips, Bottom

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• If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
  the ocean doesn’t care.
  But when Newton’s apple
  fell toward the earth,
  the earth, ever so slightly, fell
  toward the apple as well.

  Ellen Bass

  Ocean, Earth, Care

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• Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

  Melissa Coleman

  Beautiful, Fall, Blue

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• The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly.

  Rob Enderle

  Ipods, Expectations, Versions

  "HP Rolls Out New Range of Consumer Products, Including iPod", www.foxnews.com. August 27, 2004.

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• Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

  James Bridie

  Firsts, Steps, Experimental Science

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• In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west.

  Gary Snyder

  Book, Years, Names

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

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