"The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind."
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"Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil."
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"All that foreign oil controlling American soil."
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"The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free."
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"Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality."
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"No mud can soil us but the mud we throw."
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"Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds."
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"He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!"
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"If one finger brings oil it soils the others."
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"You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed."
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"John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong."
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"Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds."
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"You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself."
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"Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens."
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"Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty."
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"But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism."
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"Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent."
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"The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it."
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"The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized."
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"The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil."
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