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• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Nature, Motivation

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on

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• The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.

  Christopher Augustine Reynolds

  Humility, Ears, Lowest

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• Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Library, Seeds, Vessel

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• Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

  Bill Bryson

  Oats, Wheat, Potatoes

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Jul 05, 2016

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• It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

  John Cheever

  Friendship, Light, Smell

  John Cheever (1958). “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, and Other Stories: By John Cheever”, New York, Harper

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• Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

  William Bernbach

  Business, Style, Today

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• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

  Lord Byron

  Country, Hunting, Literature

  'The Age of Bronze' (1823) st. 14

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• Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, Greedy, Crops

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• The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Yellow, Apples, Bending Down

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

  Torquato Tasso

  Corn On The Cob, Busy, Corny

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act IV, scene IV, line 63, 1790.

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• Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

  Bobby Flay

  Summer, Parent, Jersey

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• And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

  Robert Grosseteste

  August, Land, Advise

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• Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Energy, Soybeans

  "The Cheapest Calories Make You the Fattest: A food-chain journalist looks for stories in our meals". Interview with Helen Wagenvoord, michaelpollan.com. September 30, 2004.

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• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  William Banting

  Horse, Illustration, Ordinary

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17

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• The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

  Roberto Benigni

  Fields, Saws, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

  Joanna Southcott

  Summer, Land, Next

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Wine, Issues, Kitchen

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• We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

  Loretta Lynn

  Halloween, Mean, Tipping

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.31, Vintage

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• Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Wine, Mean

  "Tremendous Trifles. Secret of a Train". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

  David Ricardo

  Encouragement, Fall, Mean

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.388, London, J. Murray

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• Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Bread, Week, Alms

  Francis Henry Cripps-Day, Walter de Henley, Jacques Bellot, Robert Grosseteste (1931). “The manor farm”

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• Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Food, Past, Men

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

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• We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Apples, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

  George Orwell

  Party, Reality, Views

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• All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Life, Hope, Spring

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