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P. J. O'Rourke

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."

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Donna Grant

"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years."

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Donna Grant

"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."

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Donna Grant

"I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce."

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Donna Grant

"Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now."

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Donna Grant

"Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us."

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Donna Grant

"Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people."

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Donna Grant

"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."

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Donna Grant

"So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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P. J. O'Rourke
"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."

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P. J. O'Rourke
"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible."

Woman

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P. J. O'Rourke
"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective."

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P. J. O'Rourke
"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly."

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P. J. O'Rourke
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

Government

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P. J. O'Rourke
"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

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P. J. O'Rourke
"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."

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P. J. O'Rourke
"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."

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P. J. O'Rourke
"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy."

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P. J. O'Rourke
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

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