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• Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Fall, Pride, Leader

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• with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Girl, Country, Queens

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• God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

  Max Lucado

  World, Want, Possession

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

  James Wright

  Struggle, Book, Writing

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• Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

  Victor Hugo

  House, Splits, Splendor

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Activity, Products

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Insane, Norway

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.

  Stephen Fry

  Spiritual, Wall, Children

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• God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Soul, Stories

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

  Groucho Marx

  Apples, Doe, Sauce

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• I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Jelly, Grapes, Young

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• I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

  Queen Latifah

  Pirate, Booty, Olives

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• Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

  Tom Peters

  Giving, Ifs

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• The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

  Robert Fulghum

  Love You, Heart, Love Is

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.68, Ballantine Books

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

  Anais Nin

  Illumination, Space, Tree

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• God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

  Robert Frost

  Children, Flower, Home

  Robert Frost (1992). “Selected Poems”, Gramercy

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• If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

  Stephen Fry

  Song, Smart, Mad

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• All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.

  Ruth Pitter

  Love, Fall, Autumn

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hurt, Team

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• Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape.

  Alison Gopnik

  Giving, Tree, Brain

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• The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather.

  Michael Drayton

  Together, Dove, Falcon

  "The Works of Michael Drayton".

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• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Dog

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• Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

  Seth Godin

  Garden, Careers, Personality

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• If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God will invite you to abide more deeply with Him.

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Christian, Discipline, Fruit

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• This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Teaching, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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