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• She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

  Willa Cather

  Autumn, Hands, Tree

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.566, eBookIt.com

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• I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

  Camille Saint-Saens

  Music, Tree, Produce

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• A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Mind, Dumplings

  Charles Lamb (1854). “The essays of Elia...”, p.128

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• How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Hints, Newton

  "Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.

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• Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

  Jonathan Ive

  Goal, Design, Making Money

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• That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Thinking, Two

  Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.

  John Bunyan

  Inspirational, Nature, Sight

  John Bunyan, Robert Hawker (1822). “The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come; Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream; Wherein is Discovered, the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country: Containing the Pilgrimage of His Wife and Children, and Their Safe Arrival”, p.541

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• If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atoms, Would Be, Earth

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Book by Richard P. Feynman. Volume I; lecture 1, 'Atoms in Motion'; section 1-2, 'Matter is made of atoms'; p. 1-3, 1964.

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• My heart is like a singing bird
  Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
  My heart is like an apple-tree
  Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

  Christina Rossetti

  Heart, Water, Bird

  Christina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

  John McAfee

  Hate, Grandma, Pie

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• We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

  J. B. Priestley

  Tree, Complaining, Plums

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• I think Apple is a great device company.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Thinking, Company, Devices

  "TIME WARNER CEO: I Hope Apple Makes A TV" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.

  Jim Rohn

  Fitness, Jobs, Health

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 14, 2016

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• I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple.

  Moe Howard

  Cider, Adam, Apple Cider

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• It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Cost

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Graphic Arts Books

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• Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

  John Millington Synge

  Autumn, Should Have, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Want, Sake

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Golden, Silver

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.324, Ravenio Books

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• I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

  Laurie David

  Grateful, School, Kids

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• And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Sweet, Tree

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

  William Blake

  Horse, Tree, Lions

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

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• Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Gnarly, Looks

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.202, Gibbs Smith

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• A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

  Philip Roth

  Home, Army, Glasses

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

  Richard Sibbes

  Giving, Temptation, Paradise

  "Complete Works of Richard Sibbes".

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• As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Men, Adam, Should

  Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.84, Broadway Books

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