The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Our directives must be reassessed. ~Kane
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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