Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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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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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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