"Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?"
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"When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
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"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."
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"I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain."
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"Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press."
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"It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden."
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"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
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"Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?"
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"If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does."
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"The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose."
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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."
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"Everybody has asked the question, ... 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! You're doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, ... let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also."
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"If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?"
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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."
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"Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different."
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"Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground."
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"Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree."
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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."
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