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"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
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"One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen."
"Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants."
"Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us."
"They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know."
"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."
"America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation."
"Neem coating of urea ensured corruption stops and farmers get the urea that they need."
"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality."
"A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall."
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"The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."
"The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University."
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
"The title of this Chautauqua is 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,' not 'Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing,' and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the 'spirit of the valley,' not the mountaintop. The only Zen you fin on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
"This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything."
"It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says."
"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."
"Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff."
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