Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab proverbs
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A much-used plow shines; stagnant waters stink.

Estonian proverbs
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A leader is born; so is a genius.

Left brain thinks in linear way
It ploughs deep and narrow.
Right brain thinks in non-linear way.
It ploughs wide and shallow.
Either one is to dominate one.

The first scores in curriculum.
The other does in multi-fields.
The first ranks in I.Q.
The other ranks in personality.
A genius is not a born leader.
A leaser is not a genius.
People respect the left brainy
and suspect the right brainy
19.07.2001, Pkd

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

quote by Evan Davis
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A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.

Chinese proverbs
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Antarctica

Jim Moginie/Rob Hirst/Martin Rotsey/Peter Garrett)
I'm a snow plow
I must now plough on
I'm a snow plough
I'm a settler's son
I'm a storm cloud
Rain myself all over the place
I'm a storm cloud
Wipe that smile right off your face
There must be one place left in the world
Where the mountains meet the sea
There must be one place left in the world
Where the water's real and clean
I'm a landslide
I'm a downhill run
I'm a landslide
Open season's just begun
There must be one place left in the world
Where the skin says it can breathe
There's gotta be one place left in the world

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He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.

Saadi in On the Duties of Society
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Many can drive oxen, few can plough.

Latin proverbs
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Many can drive an ox; few can plough.

Latin proverbs
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Where shall the ox go and not plough?

Spanish proverbs
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For every one with a plow ? there're seven with a spoon.

Russian proverbs
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A Shared Fire!

evolving...
through inter-action,
interbeing, involvement.

dead people dont walk,
dont fill the bowls,
dont wipe away tears.

an island at the mercy
of a raging ocean...
but wind and mountain co-exist!

only the rhythm
of the soul walking beside,
validates the journey.

ashes, ashes, new plowed earth,
two sets of hands on the plow!
we fill each other's bodies

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poem by Eric Cockrell
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He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

quote by Jacopo Sannazaro
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Freedom's Plow

When a man starts out with nothing,
When a man starts out with his hands
Empty, but clean,
When a man starts to build a world,
He starts first with himself
And the faith that is in his heart-
The strength there,
The will there to build.

First in the heart is the dream-
Then the mind starts seeking a way.
His eyes look out on the world,
On the great wooded world,
On the rich soil of the world,
On the rivers of the world.

The eyes see there materials for building,
See the difficulties, too, and the obstacles.
The mind seeks a way to overcome these obstacles.
The hand seeks tools to cut the wood,

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poem by Langston Hughes
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Don't plow during September and don't seed during October.

Sicilian proverbs
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You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Irish proverbs
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One must plough with the horses he has.

German proverbs
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He that counts all costs, will never put plow in the yeard.

Scotch proverbs
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Don't yoke the plough before the horses.

Dutch proverbs
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