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«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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crop, cropped, one year, photographs, significant, twelve
«It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.»
Author: Franklin P. Jones
(Businessman)
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Opinions
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cropped, crops, paying, raises
«Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Freedom,
Mankind
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«Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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abundant, apply, crop, cropped, cultivation, land, prosperous, The Land, the next
«And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, / Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; / And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: / He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.»
«My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem 'is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?'»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Time
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agreeably, carpe diem, crop, cropped, Diem, months, obliged, obliging, passed, seconds, thirty, Thirty one, viciously
«Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Humor
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cropped, crops, irritation, irritations, resentments, saving, slip, slip away, sunny
«The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
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by size, census, cities, civilization, Civilization I, country, cropped, crops, kind of, Of Man, size, sized, sizes, size up, sizing, test, the country, the true, turns
«Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.»
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