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«Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.»
Author: Dick Armey
| Keywords:
areas, companies, devastate, devastated, devastating, farm, farmers, fertilizer, fertilizers, programs, reduction, reductions, rural, salesmen, tractor
«Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!»
Author: Don A. Dillman
| About:
America and Americans,
Life,
Quality
| Keywords:
high quality, ironically, rural, viewed
«The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.»
Author: William Ferris
| Keywords:
artifact, bedrock, country store, cultural, PIE, rural, snack, snacks
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
| Keywords:
as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admirable, adult male, chiefly, contributing, imperfectly, infancy, in no way, lap, organs, plates, provision, repose, rudimentary, rural, substantial, support system, The Animal
«INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abbot, acolyte, archbishop, Archbishop of, archdeacon, beadle, beadles, beneficiaries, beneficiary, bishops, Brahmin, Brahmins, canon, canons, Cardinals, choral, clerks, confessor, confessors, Constantinople, contributory, curate, curates, cures, deacon, deacons, deans, diocesan, divines, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, elders, friar, friars, High Church, imperfectly, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, infidel, infidels, Lama, Monks, New class, niggardly, novice, novices, Nuns, obeah, Parsons, Pastor, pastors, patriarch, patriarchs, pilgrims, popes, preachers, prelate, prelates, presbyter, presbyters, primate, Primates, Prophets, readers, rector, rectors, reverences, reverent, rural, sacristan, scoundrel, scribes, Sellers, sexton, sheik, The Dean, The Infidels, The Novice, vicar, vicars, voodoo
«Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.»
«If a person with a rural accent says 'I don't know much about politics,' zip your pocket»
«Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for th»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
at bottom, conservation, dealing, fundamental, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, policies, policy, prosper, rests, rural, sides, steadily, this policy
«Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
exhilarate, languid, restore, rural, sights, Sight and Sound, tone
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