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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.


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JENNIFER LAWRENCE Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
HENRY FORD Hewers of wood and drawers of water
PROVERB Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON So there's all kinds of wood, all kinds of debris and hazardous materials in the water right now, an...
DAN GRIFFIN As soon as this wood is gone, the water here will rise rapidly again.
FRANZ BACHMANN He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Water gets enlightened at 100 ºC.
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OSHO Chop the slop!
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Water or wood or air,
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NATALIE GOLDBERG Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
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ABDUL REEKI We will chop their heads once our deadline is over.
ABDUL HAMEED REEKI Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
SIR HENRY COTTON Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
ARTHUR BAER It will be like trying to chop down a sequoia.
DENNIS HERLONG And you don't have to cook anything ? you just chop.
BRUCE ZHANG Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
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DON ALBRECHT Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
CHöGYAM TRUNGPA Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMA The only education is enlightenment.
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EDWARD ABBEY It's not easy to chop down 40 feet of thorny vines.
KATHY NELSON Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Foam will be the next wave of wood replacement after decking.
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GREGORY JENKINS Ed Wood.
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TOM WOOD Wood is dirty and nasty. I didn't want to mess with it in the house.
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OLIVER CROMWELL Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot
DIXIE LEE RAY [The piano is] able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrati...
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HOWIE DOROUGH We've had, knock on wood, over 12 singles. But for somebody who's not truly a Backstreet fan, [who] ...
HOWIE DOROUGH Cement doesn't burn. Wood does.
JIM BRADLEY Can't see the wood for the trees
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BILL HIRSH Try and go with the grain of the wood if we can.
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PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
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