"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."

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Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898”

Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.”

Source : "Gun control votes expected today in Senate". www.cnn.com. May 20, 1999.
“Scores only matter if theyâ€™re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.”
“I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.”
“I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.”
“Freedom is the right to never have to lie.”
“We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.”
“I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.”
“The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.”

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