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• Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

  Felicia Hemans

  Summer, Brother, Grief

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.384

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• Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.

  Ada Limon

  Moving, Kids, Firefly

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• Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Honey, Sometimes, Lost

  1842 The American Notebooks (published 1868), ch.5.

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• The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Believe, Rights

  "Cambodian Road Trip". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 15, 2009.

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• Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dream, Children, People

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• These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Bird, Tree, Rules And Regulations

  Song: Rules and Regulations, 2007

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• The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

  Will Cuppy

  Good Luck, Ancient, Bad Luck

  "How to Attract the Wombat". Book by Will Cuppy, 1949.

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• The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

  Nathalia Crane

  Summer, Fate, Night

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.

  Adam Sandler

  Dad, Thinking, Skateboarding

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• 'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

  Hortense Calisher

  Wind, Sound, Bumble Bee

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• The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

  Nathalia Crane

  Tails, Lines, Language

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Flower, Serpent, Comparison

  "Morte d' Abele". Part I, 1732.

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• If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

  George Ade

  Work, Mean, Destiny

  George Ade (1904). “True bills”

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• Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Use, Speak

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Things In Life

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• You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

  Norton Juster

  Flower, Years, People

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

  Leigh Hunt

  Heart, June, Lazy

  James Henry Leigh Hunt, “To The Grasshopper And The Cricket”

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• Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Perfect

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves for money-- Come, journey the way with me.

  Madison Cawein

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• Answer July-
  Where is the Bee-
  Where is the Blush-
  Where is the Hay?
  
  Ah, said July-
  Where is the Seed-
  Where is the Bud-
  Where is the May-
  Answer Thee-Me-

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, July, Bud

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “Emily Dickinson”, p.13, Moondance Press

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• He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Peace, Honey, Doe

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• The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Fun, Kids, Important

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• My parents are amazing. When I said I wanted to go into film, they didn't understand it, but they were incredibly supportive. But growing up, I absolutely did have that feeling of, "Wow, somebody just gave me up." That was infused in The Secret Life of Bees too - the protagonist wanting unconditional love from her dead but much-imagined mother.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Mother, Growing Up, Unconditional Love

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Sex, Technology, Men

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• Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. So just bring it on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uncles, Dad, Fear

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