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• The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Pigs, Tree

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• Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.

  Will Smith

  Squirrels, Discovery, Blind

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• Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Soulmate, Knowledge

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• The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

  Jon Voight

  Running, Bullying, Truth

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• "What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

  David Zindell

  Fear, Tree, Growing

  "The Broken God". Book by David Zindell, 1992.

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• Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'

  Adyashanti

  Tree, Insane, Rotten

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• Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Science, Genius

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• You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

  Mario Batali

  Summer, Years, Squash

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• Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Life, Tree, Trying

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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

  Clive Anderson

  Children, Ideas, People

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• I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Believe, Flower

  Sir Winston Churchill (1961). “The unwritten alliance: speeches 1953-1959”

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• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Mean, Cat

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I get hoes like acorns falling out of trees.

  Master P

  Fall, Hoe, Tree

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• Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Baby, Differences

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 12, 2013

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• October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.

  Jean Hersey

  Fall, Blue, Purple

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• The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

  Carl Jung

  Mind, Mammals, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.105, Dell

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• What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Numbers, Growth

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.83, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lying, Men, Chinese

  Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Identity, Fullness, Oaks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

  Maya Angelou

  Practice, Virtue, Oak Tree

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Acorns were good until bread was found.

  Francis Bacon

  Food, Progress, Bread

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• Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

  Graham Nelson

  Home, Writing, Adventure

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• Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

  Susan Mallery

  Squirrels, Sometimes, Blind

  Susan Mallery (2012). “Falling for Gracie”, p.30, Harlequin

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• I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Character, Thinking, Ashes

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom (1991). “The Piozzi Letters: 1792-1798”, Univ of Delaware Pr

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