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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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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