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“A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.”
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“I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.”
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“What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.”
Source : "Noem on Bailouts" by Tim Appel, Rapid City Journal, October 13, 2010.
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“Your best work is your expression of yourself.”
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“Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.”
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“Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood. Â As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind. Â Distinctions of tongue or boundary lines disappear before the power of truths, which, like the rainbow, charm by the beauty of variegated hues, or, combined with light, illuminate the universe. Â Moreover, art is the connecting link in the chain of great minds. Â Through its language, thought appeals to thought, and sympathy echoes feeling.”
Source : James Jackson Jarves (1855). “Art-hints: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting”, p.10
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“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”
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“If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.”
