"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."

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Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#Majority Quotes #Soil Quotes #Bread Quotes

“Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.”
“[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'”
“Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.”
“It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering presence that gratifies our innate urges to be suckled, held, rocked, caressed. But that same gratifying presence puts limits on desire and rations satisfaction. In this sense the mother is also the first lawgiver.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
“The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.”
“The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.”
“Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.”
“I hated grunge. No oneâ€™s more feminist than me, but you donâ€™t have to look as if you donâ€™t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.”

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