Hello 2009.

...for those who need food to survive:

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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

Washington, George

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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

Kennedy, John F.

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There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Bork, bork, bork!

Muppet, Chef

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