Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords."
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Thaddeus Stevens
Politician
"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors."
Plato
Philosopher
"He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed."
Charles Edison
Inventor, Businessman
"He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions."
Neil Young
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again."
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"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."
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