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“Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.”
“Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.”
“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.”
“Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour of an industrious and ingenious people was variously, but incessantly employed, in the service of the rich. In their dress, their table, their houses, and their furniture, the favourites of fortune united every refinement of conveniency, of elegance, and of splendour, whatever could soothe their pride or gratify their sensuality.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1: With Maps
“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”
“Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.”
“Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man”
“Agriculture is the new golf”
“Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.”
“Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.”
“Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.”
“Agriculture makes people dependent on a few domesticated crops and animals instead of hundreds of wild food sources, creating vulnerability to droughts and blights and zoonotic diseases. Agriculture makes for sedentary living, leaving humans to do something that no primate with a concern for hygiene and public health would ever do: namely, living in close proximity to their feces. Agriculture makes for surplus and thus almost inevitably, the uneven distribution of surplus generating socio-economic status differences that dwarf anything that other primates cook up with their hierarchies. And from there it's just a hop, skip and a jump until we've got Mr. McGregor persecuting Peter Rabbit and people incessantly singing Oklahoma.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all creatures, animate and inanimate. It is sympathy that most appropriately enlarges the context of human work. Contexts become wrong by being too small - too small, that is, to contain the scientist or the farmer or the farm family or the local ecosystem or the local community - and this is crucial.”
Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.”
“Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.”
“Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.”
“Agriculture soon became the sole employment of a learned class of experts, the first priesthood. They became well acquainted with the significant phenomena of nature. They became the culture experts, the intellectual few who could read the movement of the elements and interpret relationships in nature”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.”
“Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.”
“Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.”
“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.”
“Agua brava.
Furious water, an undertow that could lift you up and wash you away. That would never leave you quite in the same place it found you. That returned you slightly — but irrevocably— different. So that at night when you lay in your dry bed, you still felt the memory of that wave moving inside you.”
“Agua, water, pani, todo lo mismo.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Agustina, vida mía, no permitamos que la locura, vieja enemiga, acabe con cualquier atisbo de dicha, pero Agustina no escucha porque esta noche ella y la locura son un, Mi mujer está loca, me reconocí a mí mismo por primera vez esa noche, y sin embargo ese pensamiento no logró convencerme, no es así, Agustina vida mía, porque detrás de tu locura sigues estando tú, pese a todo sigues estando tú, y a lo mejor, quién quita, allá en el fondo también sigo estado yo, ¿te acuerdas de mí, Agustina? ¿Te acuerdas de ti misma?”
Source: Delirio
“Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.”
“Agustín lo observaba desde la puerta y al mirar a Paco así, indefenso, enfermo, inmundo y miserable, sintió, con una seguridad atroz, como una epifanía, que lo amaría siempre.”
Source: Pequeños palacios en el pecho
“Agustín Parlá Orduña was among the early Cuban aviation aces. He was born in Key West, Florida, on October 10, 1887, and received his early education there. After Cuba was liberated from Spain, the family returned to Havana, where he continued his education. On April 20, 1912, he received his pilot’s license at the Curtiss School of Aviation in Miami. On July 5, 1913, when the Cuban Army Air Corps was formed, Agustín Parlá was commissioned as a captain in the Cuban Armed Forces.
On May 17, 1913, Domingo Rosillo and Agustín Parlá attempted the first international flights to Latin America, by trying to fly their airplanes from Key West to Havana. At 5:10 a.m., Rosillo departed from Key West and flew for 2 hours, 30 minutes and 40 seconds before running out of gas. He had planned to land at the airfield at Camp Columbia in Havana, but instead managed to squeak in at the shooting range, thereby still satisfactorily completing the flight.
Parlá left Key West at 5:57 in the morning. Just four minutes later, at 6:01 a.m., he had to carefully turn back to the airstrip he had just left, since the aircraft didn’t properly respond to his controls. Parlá said, “It would not let me compensate for the wind that blew.” When he returned to Key West, he discovered that two of the tension wires to the elevator were broken.
On May 19, 1913, Parlá tried again and left Key West, carrying the Cuban Flag his father had received from José Martí. This time he fell short and had to land at sea off the Cuban coast near Mariel, where sailors rescued him from his seaplane.”
“Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!"
~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
Source: The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“AH: A great artist is imperative to society, doctor, because that person decides to pursue the uncertain future of an artist for no other reason than to create art and improve life for everybody. Art is self-determining and undemocratic. It’s a meritocracy. And anyone with any sense at all understands that art is the soothing slave on the irritating wound that is life.
DR: Did you just make that up?
AH: Yes.
DR. That’s very good.”
Source: Hitler in the Madhouse
“Ah! A lady of mystery! My very favorite kind.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Ah! A lady of mystery. My very favourite kind!' He's wearing a green doublet, with slits to show his silk shirt underneath. HIs fox eyes are alight. He looks like a faerie lover stepped out of a ballad, the kind where no good comes to the girl who runs away with him.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“ah, a vida... a coisa que acontece conosco enquanto estamos distraídos em algum outro lugar soprando dentes-de-leão & desejando estar nas páginas do nosso conto de fadas favorito.”
Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“Ah, adventure! Ah, romance! Ah, courtly graces and the noble gestures! Don't you wish you knew people like that? Don't you wish we could still walk around in cloaks and boots and breeches, with leather doublets and flowing white dueling shirts and swords strapped around our waists? Of course, if we did, given the way things are today, there'd be people out there lobbying for sword control, and we'd need a National Sword Association and bumper stickers that would read "Swords don't kill people, knights kill people," and there would be a five-day waiting period and background check before you could buy a rapier. We'd have drive-by lungings and people would be afraid of children carrying broadswords to school. "Milady" would be regard as a sexist term and feminists would go absolutely berserk if any woman called a man "Milord." Ralph Nader would probably get quarter horses banned because they are too small and unsafe in a collision and someone would figure out a way to put seat belts and air bags on our saddles. That's why people join the SCA and read fantasy novels, because the real world sucks.”
Source: The Ambivalent Magician
“AH AH AH, sai, è buffo, questa situazione. Mi ricorda una barzeletta. Vedi, ci sono questi due tizi in un manicomio ... e una notte, una notte, decidono che sono stanchi di vivere in un manicomio. Decidono che cercheranno di fuggire! Così, salgono sul tetto e, dall'altra parte, vedono i palazzi della città distendersi alla luce della luna... verso la libertà. Il primo salta sul tetto vicino senza alcun problema. Ma il suo amico non osa compiere il balzo perché... perché ha paura di cadere. Allora il primo ha un idea... e dice"ehi, ho preso la torcia elettrica con me! Illuminerò lo spazio tra i due edifici. Così mi raggiungerai camminando sul raggio di luce."M-ma il secondo scuote la testa. E d-dice... dice "co-cosa credi? Che sia pazzo? Quando sarò a metà strada la spegnerai!"[Joker]”
“Ah-ah! Another kiss. Come here to me, Charlotte-Rose. Come and kiss me.'
He flung himself down on the couch and held out his arms to me. I rose and went slowly towards him, searching his face, my stomach fluttering with nerves. His face softened. 'I will not hurt you, chérie.' He drew me down so our mouths met and clung.
It was a long, long kiss. Somehow, I found myself lying back on the cushions, the Marquis' body half-covering mine, his hand tangling my hair, one shoulder bared to the cool night air. He lifted his mouth from mine, smiled at me and then shifted his body so that his mouth was at the junction of my collarbones, his tongue tracing lazy circles in the hollow. I sighed. My bones seemed made of honey, my skin dancing with a million tiny stars.”
Source: Bitter Greens
“Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die," Sister Berry snapped.”
“Ah, aku bingung bagaimana besok akan menghadapinya. Cukupkah dengan anggukan saja atau dengan sebuah pelukan. Lansung menjawab iya atau memutar-mutar jawaban terlebih dahulu untuk jawaban serupa. Perlukah kata-kata puitis atau cukup dengan percakapan biasa. Cinta ini benar-benar membiusku, Ry.
(Goresan Cinta, Dunia Tanpa Huruf R)”
Source: Dunia Tanpa Huruf R
“Ah, all these women and not a pair of lips to kiss”
Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official
“Ah, allora è così che succede. Quella faccenda dell'uscire dal proprio corpo, intendo. Mi sento sollevare in alto, ma non poi tanto. E non è che mi veda fluttuare sospesa sopra il mio corpo. No. Sento solo caldo sul lato destro, dalla spalla fino alla coscia. Il che è strano. Non mi risulta che in paradiso ci si possa andare solo per metà.
Forse la mia vita è talmente incasinata che persino il Padreterno deve prendersi un po' di tempo per capire che deve farci, con me.”
Source: La Principessa e l'Orso
“Ah, among the unhappiest blunders a man makes is this, that he childishly misjudges the value of the gifts that nature bestows on him most easily, and, contrariwise, considers most precious the endowments that come hardest. The precious stone buried in the earth's entrails, the pearl hidden in the ocean depths—these are what people regard as the greatest treasures; but they would look down on them if nature strewed them underfoot like pebbles and seashells. We are casual about our own excellences; we try to deceive ourselves about out weaknesses so long that we end up taking them for eminent virtues. Once, after a concert by Paganini, when I confronted the master with passionate praises for his violin playing, he interrupted me with these words: 'But today how did you like my bows, my genuflections?”
Source: Complete Poems
“Ah, an admirable profession. But no, I'm not a librarian.”
Source: Life Hacks for a Little Alien
“Ah," Anselmo took the cup, put his head back and let it run down his throat. He looked at Maria standing holding the bottle and winked at her, tears coming from both his eyes. "That," he said. "That." Then he licked his lips. "That is what kills the worm that haunts us.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Ah, Azalea," said the King. "He's not going to be the one proposing."
The springs in Azalea's feet went poioioing.
"Sorry?" she said.
"You outrank him, you know." The King shifted, uncomfortable. "It would be highly inappropriate for him to propose to you. The Delchastrian queen had to propose-"
"I will do no such thing!" said Azalea.”
Source: Entwined
“Ah babe, I love you but I’d rather take a bullet than date you,” Jake said teasingly, adding softly, “We both are too fucked up to date each other and we love each other enough not to put each other through that hell.” – Jake Carlisle to Stephanie Carovella.”
Source: Nowhere to Hide
“Ah, baby! A smiling angel from heaven who came down to earth to steal our hearts.”
“Ah, bahagianya membaca tulisannya yang meski hanya pendek tapi menurutku sangat istimewa. Seringkali aku yang meminta dan menanyakan, jadi ketika kabar dan berita itu datang dari diri dan inisiatifnya, sangat berarti untukku. Sederhana ya bahagiaku.”
Source: Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku
“Ah, be thankful for the people who are laughing at you, they are actually helping you grow.”
“Ah, benim bildiklerimi herkes bilebilir - bana özgü olansa yalnızca yüreğim.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther