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"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."
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"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"
"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."
"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."
"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting."
"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
"I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."
"If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it."
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"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."
"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."
"The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset."
"Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities."
"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."
"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves."
"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion."
"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."
"Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world."
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