Charles Lindbergh

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.

American Aviator

Parker Harris

Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.

Tony Campolo

I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

American Clergyman

John Dickerson

The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong.

American Journalist

Leonardo da Vinci

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Italian Artist

John Burroughs

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

American Author

Fred Allen

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

American Comedian

Leo Buscaglia

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Kodie Shane

I'm a sap. I like love movies. I watch too many of those.

American Musician

Rodney Dangerfield

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

Sap refers to a vital liquid that circulates within a plant's structure.

Natural Substance

While some sap is used in food, like maple syrup, not all sap is safe to consume.

Not Always Edible

Sap can range from watery to very thick, depending on the plant species.

Varied Consistency

Sap as a verb describes the action of depleting someone's strength or resources.

Deplete Energy

The verb 'sap' often implies a slow and gradual weakening, not instant.

Gradual Effect

Sap can refer to a loss of emotional or mental energy as well as physical strength.

Emotional Impact

As a noun, 'sap' indicates a person who is too trusting and easily deceived.

Easily Tricked

The term 'sap' used to describe a person is informal and can be considered derogatory.

Informal Slang

The use of 'sap' to call someone a fool is primarily a North American slang.

Cultural Nuance

 real here with you about what time that looks like and how I got the situation largely under control because maybe you'll relate it started by saying that those all-nighters I was so bloody proud of were sapping the quality of my all-day errs what I thought of as a net-net was in fact a net not to put

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 When that sap touches the insect’s cells, its high sugar content encourages the water in the cells to come out by osmosis… exactly like salt encourages water to come out of a slug. The more sap that passes through the insect, the more water it loses. Eventually, it shrivels up and dies.

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 that fatigue is an opportunity to evaluate how much we want it. Because if you are beaten down, if you have worked as hard as you can, if you have done everything you said you should, and it still doesn't work out, fatigue can sap you of your energy.

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 So, he made a little doll covered in sap and left it in her path. When she came upon it, Mmoatia spoke to the doll but became enraged when it didn’t answer. She hit the disrespectful doll and her small fists stuck to its sticky surface.

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 even if they live for thousands of years to come. So what exactly is stopping these trees from growing taller, forever? It all comes down to sap. In order for trees to grow, they need to bring sugars obtained from photosynthesis

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 and assume you had a long, fulfilling life so we can get to what is really important -- how you die. There are many ways to become a fossil, so let's highlight your top death options. You could get yourself trapped in tree sap,

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 If you want to make a dinosaur, you go out, you find yourself a piece of petrified tree sap -- otherwise known as amber -- that has some blood-sucking insects in it, good ones, and you get your insect and you drill into it

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 in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within.

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 this he's drying them here they use a poison called dodgem it's sap from a tree that's very very powerful and potent as a venom he said that my

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 and the bison are now slowly starving just keeping warm saps huge amounts of energy

Sap

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Not Always Edible

Varied Consistency

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