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title: "3 Asked Gardener Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/the-great-french-marshall-lyautey-once-asked-his-gardener-to-plant-a/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-charles-polanyi/a-wise-man-in-china-asked-his-gardener-to-plant-a-shrub-the-gardener/)

[John Charles Polanyi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-charles-polanyi/)

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> [“As we think about the next 50 years, I remember a story President Kennedy told a week before he was killed. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/newton-n-minnow/as-we-think-about-the-next-50-years-i-remember-a-story-president/)

[Newton N. Minnow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/newton-n-minnow/)

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