"Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we should instead, realize that we are receiving that which nature decides to give us. A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being. The farmer has very little influence over that process... other than being there and doing his or her small part."

-- Masanobu Fukuoka

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“President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.”
“Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.”
“Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.”
“Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.”

Source : Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
“Only he who is without anything is without enemies.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2008). “Chronicles Of Captain Blood”, p.93, House of Stratus
“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
“Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.”

Source : Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”
“I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.”

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