"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

Source : William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”
“I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.”
“The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.”
“Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.”
“In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.”
“I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.”
“If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.”
“In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.”

Source : "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.

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