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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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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