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I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.

~Chen Guangbiao

Topics: Be Grateful Been China Economic Efforts Farmer Get Grateful Had Here Letting Me Our Reforms Rich Society Staff Would

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I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

~Chuck Grassley

Topics: America Care Consuming Electricity Farmer Health Health Care Know Known Midwest Providing Public Purposes Sell Serve Supplies Support Them Want Where Whether Years I Can

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I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Back Bay Chicken City Cruz Farmer Mostly Retired Santa Then

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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

~David Antin

Topics: Chicken Engineer Farmer Mother Professional She Should Thought Turned Understand Wanted Why Widow

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The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

~David F. Houston

Topics: Crops Duty Farmer Food His Increase Individual Particularly Production Time

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As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.

~David Ricardo

Topics: Additional Farmer Great He High Him Interested Landlord Low May Price Produce Quantity Raw Realized Revenue Value Well

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I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

~Dennis Quaid

Topics: Always Close Come Farmer Grandfather Liked Montana Outdoors Ranch Real Texas Working

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When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Any Car Distribute Door Enemies Farmer Front Front Door He His House Inside Kid Known Nebraska Passing Perceived Shotgun Trained Up Which Widely

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Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Both Combat Facial Farmer Fought Hair Hampshire New New Hampshire Old Sheep Too War Who Wore

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I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: About After Complaining Did Farmer Fix Get Just Like Realised Therapy Weather While You

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