"After all, what is every man? A horde……" — Walter de La Mare

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• Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
• You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of… — Mario Batali
• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence… — Thomas Carlyle
• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird… — James Allen
• The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Charles Tomlinson
• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat… — Rollo May
• When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in.… — Richard Hamming
• Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn. — Jim Cornette
• What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if… — Philip Roth
• If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking.… — Marianne Williamson
• Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Henry Ward Beecher
• The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey

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