"Farming is a profession of hope"

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Source : Brian Brett (2009). “Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life”, p.16, Greystone Books Ltd

Brian Brett

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“[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.”
“Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.”
“Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.”
“Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.”
“I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.”

Source : “The Notorious Blago” by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 11, 2010.
“We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.”
“I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race...After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?”

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