"If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm."

-- David Ricardo

#Land Quotes #Pieces Quotes #May Quotes

“My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.”

Source : Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.213, Simon and Schuster
“The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.”
“[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?”
“As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.53, Oxford University Press
“I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.”
“God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.”
“I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.”
“I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.”

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