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agriculture
«The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
Advances, agriculture, architecture, centralized, centralizing, industry, painting
«Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living»
Author: Xenophon
| About:
Art,
Living,
Meaning
| Keywords:
agriculture, best of all, high-minded, highminded, honorable, occupations, procure, procured, procures, procuring
«Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
agriculture, attitudes, cater, catered, catering, confer, conferring, confer with, fortitude, impulses, shaping, skills, studies
«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.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
agriculture, cheating, commerce, conquered, continual, god of war, hand of God, industry, miracle man, neighbors, plundered, plundering, plunders, receives, robberies, robbery, Romans, the Romans, The Third, three-way, thrown, virtuous, war god, wherein, wrought
«Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Medicine
| Keywords:
Advances, agriculture, in history, medicine, saved, vastly
«College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.»
«True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
active, agriculture, arduous, contentment
«For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
agriculture, bred, delightful, gainful, pleasing, professions, well-bred
«Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
agriculture, commerce, enterprise, Four Pillars, left most, manufactured, manufactures, Manufacturing, navigation, pillared, pillars, Pillars of, The Four, thriving