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• Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Giving, Choices

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• The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

  David F. Houston

  Yield, Land, Grass

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• In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Keys, Mcdonalds

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• We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

  Bobby Jindal

  Alternatives, Development, Fuel

  "America’S 25 Issues to Fix and Make the United States Great, Again!". Book by Peter D. Fleming, January 15, 2010.

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• The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

  John Lawson

  America, World, Difficult

  John Lawson (2010). “A New Voyage to Carolina”, p.79, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Hope

  "Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Work, Sleep

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain
  Like holy water falls upon the plain,
  'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain
  And see your harvest born.
  And sweet the little breeze of melody
  The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree,
  While the wild poppy lights upon the lea
  And blazes 'mid the corn.

  Francis Ledwidge

  Sweet, Spring, Rain

  Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd

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• Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

  Publilius Syrus

  Thrust

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Years, Agriculture

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2009.

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• But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking.

  Michael Pollan

  Lying, Animal, Hair

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• Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sleep, Diligence, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

  Charles Dickens

  Song, Nature, Air

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.37

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• She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

  Sharon Olds

  Grandma, Laughing, Teeth

  Sharon Olds (2012). “The Dead and the Living”, p.18, Knopf

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• Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rose, Ghost, Scene

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.150, Library of America

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• The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

  John Masefield

  Men, Soul, Bread

  'The Everlasting Mercy' (1911) st. 86

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• The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Imagine, Mills, Conceit

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• A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

  Anne Bronte

  Nature, Sunshine, Light

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.139, Diversion Books

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• I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Night, Forests

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.402, Penguin

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• Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Self, Approval Of Others

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.514, Penguin

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• And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Halloween, Candy Corn, Next

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• When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sweet, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, Modern Library

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• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Light, Ohio

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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