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Letter "C" » crops
«We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.»
Author: Erwin Chargaff
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About:
Change,
Nature
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Keywords:
alsatian,
cropped,
crops,
elements,
goose,
In The Dark,
laser,
lasers,
manipulate,
manipulated,
Manipulating,
sharpening,
stuffing,
wash
«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
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Abolitionist,
Author,
Lecturer,
Slave)
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Keywords:
agitation,
cropped,
crops,
deprecate,
deprecates,
deprecating,
favor,
favoring,
ground,
lightning,
like thunder,
plowed,
plowing,
plows,
profess,
professes,
professing,
rain,
struggle,
thunder,
thundered,
thundering
«One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.»
«A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
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Chemist)
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Keywords:
abundant,
countryside,
crops,
farm,
landowner,
numerous,
population,
prosperous,
rewards,
spreading,
wealthy,
well-being
«It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.»
«Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(
Abolitionist,
Author,
Lecturer,
Slave)
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About:
Freedom,
Mankind
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Keywords:
agitation,
cropped,
crops,
depreciate,
depreciates,
favor,
plowed,
plowing,
plows,
profess,
professes,
professing
«Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy.»
«Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Humor
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Keywords:
cropped,
crops,
irritation,
irritations,
resentments,
saving,
slip,
slip away,
sunny
«The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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About:
Civilization
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Keywords:
by size,
census,
cities,
civilization,
Civilization I,
country,
cropped,
crops,
kind of,
Of Man,
size,
sized,
sizes,
size up,
sizing,
test,
the country,
the true,
turns