"In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary!"

-- Mary Ruwart

#Taken Quotes #Garden Quotes #Vegetables Quotes

“I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.
“There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.”

Source : Itzhak Bentov (2000). “A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation”, p.78, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”
“If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.”
“The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.”

Source : Chris Bonington (1973). “The Ultimate Challenge: The Hardest Way Up the Highest Mountain in the World”, Scarborough House
“You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'”
“I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!”

Source : Source: www.bookequals.com
“It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]”

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