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• If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

  Annie Dillard

  Understanding, Progress, Novelists

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.

  Ronald Reagan

  Vegetables, Nuts, California

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• Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, And Love, Harvest

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• Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Rain, Heart, Meditation

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• Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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• My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family, who are agriculturalists, who were plantation workers, who harvested those crops and took them down to the boats run by the United Food Company, to load those ships at night, hence all the songs that I sing that come from that environment.

  Harry Belafonte

  Running, Song, Night

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.

  George Will

  Communication, Government, Dancer

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, you should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.

  Cato the Elder

  Country, Wine, Next Day

  Cato the Elder (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Summer, Spring, Rose

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 44,

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• The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

  William Dean Howells

  Growing, Slavery, Wrecks

  William Dean Howells (1872). “Their Wedding Journey”, p.154

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• You know you drank too much the night before when you wake up with crop circles in your pubes.

  Doug Benson

  Night, Circles, Wake Up

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• Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Spring, Evil, Deeds

  "Coloquio de los Perros". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1613.

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• This new crop of actors, they're larger than life people. I don't think that this generation has the same following that the last one had. You don't say "you've got to see his movie, you've got to see her movie" any more.

  Stephen Humphrey Bogart

  Thinking, People, This Generation

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

  James Taylor

  People, Going Away, Lasts

  "I used to check my bumpers for blood" by Paul Sexton, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Years, Facts, Young

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

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• Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

  Luke Bryan

  Growing Up, Dad, Rain

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• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Loyalty, Opportunity, Culture

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• Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

  Margaret Atwood

  Plant, Results, Drought

  "Margaret Atwood, Speculative Fiction's Apocalyptic Optimist". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 20, 2009.

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• You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Thinking, Age

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• I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?

  Jason Aldean

  Artist, Thinking, Nashville

  "Jason Aldean: At my show, 'you're going to have a good time'". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mistake, Hard Work, Long

  "Vishy Anand: 'I found Bobby Fischer surprisingly normal and calm'". Interview with Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

  Salman Rushdie

  Falling In Love, Book, Essence

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• Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

  Rachel Carson

  Healthy, Matter, Soil

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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