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• Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed in the entire Peloponnesian War. This is because turkey can contain salmonella, which are tiny bacteria that, if they get in your bloodstream, develop into full-grown salmon, which could come leaping out of your mouth during an important business presentation.

  Dave Barry

  War, Funny Thanksgiving, Years

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• There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Song, Writing, Modern

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• Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

  Bill Mollison

  Order, Ecosystems, People

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• To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.

  Vesanto Melina

  Rights, Practice, Web Of Life

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• Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Country, Smart, Moving

  "Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat" by Jane E. Brody, www.nytimes.com. May 08, 1990.

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• The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

  Rob Portman

  Reality, Wish, Problem

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• Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

  G. Stanley Hall

  School, Development, Motor

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.165, Read Books Ltd

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• Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

  Sue Kelly

  Loss, Weather, Faces

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• The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

  Cary Fowler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Past

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• When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

  John Stuart Mill

  Horse, Land, Three

  John Stuart Mill (1871). “Priciples of POlitical Economy”, p.335

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• Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.

  Ismail Serageldin

  Children, Book, Reading

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• You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it.  So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?'  Only in areas that you can participate it.  Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems.  Electrical, chemical, technical.  I don't know of any other kind of problem.

  Jacque Fresco

  Self Confidence, Talking, World

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• In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Moving, Government

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• Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

  Joel Salatin

  Land, Tools, Degradation

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

  Bill Gates

  Food, Moving, Land

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

  Gary Lawrence

  Future, Choices, Political

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• It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

  William Kittredge

  Art, War, Believe

  William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr

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• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Political Revolution, Humanity, Revolutionary

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• In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical period. However, we should all realize that the new system of socialism will unquestionably be consolidated. We can assuredly build a socialist state with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Long, Historical

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience, will require a long time and painstaking work. Without socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete, consolidated socialism.

  Mao Zedong

  Long, Judging, Unions

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.29, China Books

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• We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.

  Carl G. Fisher

  Believe, Mean, People

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• I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.374, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, Army, Trying

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• The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

  George Washington

  Encouragement, Home, Mean

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mind, Noon, Breakfast

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.233, Rowman & Littlefield

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