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• In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.

  Tim Ferriss

  Gun, Thinking, Doubt

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• For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Makeup, Years, Shoes

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• A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Jail, Self

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• Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

  Wendell Berry

  Forests, Harvest, Plant

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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• Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Dark, Loss, Age

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• One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Six, Life Is, Farming

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• The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.

  Albert Howard

  Mother, Pain, Taken

  SIR ALBERT HOWARD, C.l.E., M.A. (0101). “An Agricultural”, p.12, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.

  Roy Keane

  Growing Up, Games, Weakness

  "10 quotes from football stars past and present that further define the greatness of Lionel Messi" by Alex Richards, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2017.

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• A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

  Teresa Medeiros

  True Friend, Fishes, Imaginary

  Teresa Medeiros (2010). “The Devil Wears Plaid”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

  Patience Strong

  Positive, Weed, Nature

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• Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.

  David Douglas

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Journey

  David Douglas (1989). “Wilderness Sojourn: Notes in the Desert Silence”, HarperCollins

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• The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer to the product is breath-taking. When something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, there will be a great benefit to those who have taken a stance against genetically modified organisms.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Determination, Taken, Gmos

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• We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

  Winston Churchill

  Cutting, Filled Up, House

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.

  Angus Buchan

  Giving Up, Trusting Him, Sight

  Angus Buchan (2011). “Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God”, p.87, Monarch Books

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• To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Honest, Currents, Havens

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pride, Sky, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.247

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• You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

  Mike Watt

  Needs, Want, Farming

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• Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

  Joni Mitchell

  Block, Peers, Rotation

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• Oh yeah, I'm the president of the lucky club. There are so many talented people who don't work. And the crop of young actors I'm surrounded by is incredible. When you have people like that around you it amps you up a little bit. Also, Emile Hirsch and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or guys like Ryan Gosling. It's a really good crowd and I feel I'm coming up at a good time. But equally, there's a lot of good young actors who don't get to work who are more talented than I. I'm just lucky.

  Shia LaBeouf

  People, Guy, President

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Trying, Rotation

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• a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love--true-heart love--must grow.

  Lisa See

  Eye, Heart, Deep Love

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• The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Summer, Dust, Years

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• Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

  Allan Savory

  Food, Army, Agriculture

  "Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making". Book by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, 1999.

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• From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

  Al Gore

  Taken, Fire, Ice

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Discovery, Essentials, Needs

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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