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• Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Meaningful, Weed, Recovery

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• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Memories, Flower, Looks

  Rainer Maria Rilke, A. Poulin, Mark Doty (2005). “Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree, but they are also mothers of the tree. The leaves combine raw sap, water, and minerals, with sunshine and gas, and convert it into a variegated sap that can nourish the tree. In this way, the leaves become the mother of the tree. We are all children of society, but we are also mothers. We have to nourish society. If we are uprooted from society, we can not trasform it into a more liveable place for us and our children.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Children, Sunshine

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.67, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

  Cesar Chavez

  Hatred, Energy, Needs

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• Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.

  Erica Jong

  Sweet, Sex, Real

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.89, Penguin

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• Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.

  Jeff Olson

  Block, Moving, Commitment

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• I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.

  Marion Dudley Cran

  Flower, Heart, Fate

  Marion Dudley Cran (1913). “The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden”

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• I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.

  Jane Goodall

  Roots, Tree, Skins

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• We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Tree, Vigor, Use

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• The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Blood, Roots

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• It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

  George Saunders

  America, Water, Grace

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• What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

  George Eliot

  Despair, Trying, Half

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.407, 谷月社

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• Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ... There is, though, something autumnal about greed, apple-cheeked and wheat-crowned, purpled knee-high in grapes; something summery in sloth, as the hammock creaks in the fly-drowsy heat; and more than a tickle of spring in lust, as birds pair and the sap rises. Among these, ingratitude is winter, the worst of seasons.

  Ann Wroe

  Gratitude, Spring, Winter

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• Busy people begrudge the days being short.
  I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

  Stanley Kubrick

  People, Fluoride, Busy

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• The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fire, Air, Water

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 14), circa 15 BC.

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• It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.

  Thomas Hardy

  Powerful, Spring, Moving

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.119, e-artnow

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• I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

  Tucker Carlson

  Voting, Democracy

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.

  William Blackstone

  Long, Secret, Important

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• My life is like a faded leaf,
  My harvest dwindled to a husk:
  Truly my life is void and brief
  And tedious in the barren dusk;
  My life is like a frozen thing,
  No bud nor greenness can I see:
  Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring;
  O Jesus, rise in me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Jesus, Spring, Life Is Like

  Christina Rossetti, C.H. Sisson (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.64, Routledge

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• Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the color from your life so that in the loveliest moments, the moments of grace, you are hit with that whisper in your ear that takes it all away. I'm sick, I'm dying - I just don't know it yet.

  Dani Shapiro

  Color, Sick, Grace

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• This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties.

  Robert Higgs

  Military, War, Preparation

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• The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Successful, Luck, Looks

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). “The Dain Curse: The Glass Key ; and Selected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• Simmering resentment saps energy.

  Nido R Qubein

  Energy, Resentment

  Nido R. Qubein (1996). “Achieving Peak Performance: A Step by Step System to Grow a Well Trained, Educated, and Motivated Team for the 21st Century”, Bestsellers Publishing

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• There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doubt, Woods, Sometimes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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