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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.…
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more…
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,…
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind,…
— Unknown Author
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The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be…
— Tom Coburn
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
— Garrison Keillor
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself…
— Ezra Pound
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and…
— Milton Friedman
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
— Unknown Author
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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.
— Mae West
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because…
— Nat King Cole
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The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he…
— Burl Ives
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Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from…
— Dennis Miller
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