"My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped."
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"Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields."
"In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor."
"Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . ."
"The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings"
"Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time."
"The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness."
"One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun"
"It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields."
"By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear."
"A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians."
"We must be brief when traitors brave the field."
"Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad."
"I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field."
"What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field."
"A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage."
"The heavier crop is ever in others' fields."
"Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough."
"Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another."
"…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives."