"One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth."

-- Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.”

Source : "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.
“One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.”
“What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek.”

Source : John Caples (1932). “Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork”
“We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world”
“Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society, together to advance civilization towards what we all understand is necessary to advance. Because of that he's being subjected to very serious rejections from the reactionary portion of the system, which, unfortunately, is the dominant portion.”
“In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ***** at each cod or haddock that he killed.”

Source : William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.266
“A plastic man really, actually no man at all.”
“There can never be surprises in logic.”

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