There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
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Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.Liberty Hyde Bailey
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
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We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
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