"Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how to care for the land, and Eric Freyfogle has thoughtfully assembled a banquet of eloquent voices."

-- Tony Hiss

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“The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.”
“I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.
“The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.”
“The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.”

Source : "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.
“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.”
“Design is nothing if not decision making.”

Source : Henry Petroski (2007). “Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design”, p.8, Vintage
“As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.”
“I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.”

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