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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.