#kin

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#back #because #believe #give #got

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#commodity #corn #crops #designed #economy

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#game #interest #people #players #stance

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#home #i #phone #picked #please

My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul. ↗

— Tim Vine

#bedroom #bit #david #elvis #got

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff. ↗

— Tim Vine

#am #because #busy #driven #garden

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#degree #differences #everything #kind #oneness

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#aspects #developed #existence #holistic #human

I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#asking #coming #competition #eliminated #feel