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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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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