"Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?"

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Source : "No Bar Code" by Michael Pollan, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2006.

Joel Salatin

#People Quotes #House Quotes #Odd Quotes

“the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.”
“Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”
“All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.”
“The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.”
“The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.”
“When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive." As long as I'm alive I can deal with anything that's out there.”
“I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.”
“I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.”

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