"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

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Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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Sophocles, Greek Poet

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