"A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet."
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"To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds."
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"I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it. These are the last footprints of a headache I suppose. Do you ever feel that? - like an old weed in a stream. What do you feel, lying in bed?"
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"I was raised in the city, shitty Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household, And drinking liquor til' you out cold"
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"Now if you expand their choice set. Say you give them 20 different speed dates, everything goes out the window. Everybody starts choosing in accordance with looks because that becomes the easiest criteria by which to weed out all the options and decide "So who am I going to say yes to?""
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"I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board."
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"A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous."
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"Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing."
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"A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still."
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"When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty."
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"To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'"
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"James also revealed he and his teammates smoked marijuana one night after getting access to a hotel room in Akron."
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"Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable."
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"When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs."
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"I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced."
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"Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised."
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"Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes."
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"Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?"
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"Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work."
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"Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds."
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