"A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity."

-- Justus von Liebig

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“Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.”
“If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.”

Source : Joseph Cook (1879). “Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events”
“Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.”

Source : "Parental Choice in Public Schools Gains" by Edward B. Fiske, www.nytimes.com. July 11, 1988.
“I try my hardest not to read reviews.”
“Stupid, fragile mortals.”
“Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.”
“Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.”
“I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.”

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