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• Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

  Paula White

  Garden, Careers, Design

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• An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

  Laini Taylor

  Next Week, Ideas, Growth

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.

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• One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.

  J. B. Priestley

  Party, Years, Missing

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• Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Ideas, Oil

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.227, Macmillan

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• I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

  Larry McMurtry

  Thinking, Grieving, Too Much

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wine, Purple, Offering

  Hilda Doolittle, “Orchard”

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• For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Naked

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.117

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• Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Country, Circles, Forever

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• Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

  Ralph Nader

  Competition, Socialism, Enterprise

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• All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Running, Race, Peaches

  Henry Austin Dobson, “A Garden Song”

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• Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

  Frances Mayes

  Summer, Fog, Years

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• April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It's raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig for him who frets!- It is not raining rain to me, It's raining violets.

  Robert Loveman

  Rain, Flower, Clouds

  Robert Loveman, “April Rain”

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• A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Drink, Quails

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.435

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• Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.

  Bill Mollison

  Animal, Years, Apples

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Fashion, Art, Garden

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• A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Wall

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

  Honore de Balzac

  Race, Land, Care

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• A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Loss, Hands

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• You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Knowing, Hands

  Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bills, Show Me, Shows

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• So my doctor told me to watch what I'm eating - to read food labels. I'm in the store reading the Fig Newtons label: I've always liked Fig Newtons. I'm reading the label to make sure everything's fine: fat content. I looked at the serving size; two cookies. Who eats two cookies? I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve: two sleeves is a serving size. I open them both and eat them like a tree chipper; Fig Newton shavings coming off the side.

  Brian Regan

  Reading, Doctors, Two

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• The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

  Henry Adams

  Sex, Women, Humorous

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• The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.

  Lucian

  Country, Kings, Integrity

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• I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

  Yann Martel

  Tree, Faults, Kind

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

  John Eldredge

  Men, Encounters, Brilliant

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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