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I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.

—Ed Begley Jr.

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For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

—Xenophanes

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Trust was never easily won but he'd gone and done it.

—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd

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Sometimes you had signs: sometimes you didn't. But I kept a close eye anyway.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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Looking for the good in people is never stupid.

—Bella Andre in The Look of Love

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The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it—as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back.

—Lauren Barnholdt in Getting Close

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There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.

—Rita Holt

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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

—Mitch Hedberg

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Good questions outrank easy answers.

—Paul Samuelson

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

—Voltaire

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

—Alexander Pope

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

—Walt Whitman

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At my age flowers scare me.

—George Burns

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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