@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ quoteList =
9393 , "{\"source\":\"Co-operation in Danish Agriculture\",\"author\":\"Harald Faber\",\"year\":1918,\"quote\":\"A plan for improving the butter made from the milk from peasant farms by collecting the milk to be worked at one place was submitted to the Royal Agricultural Society of Denmark as early as 1852, and it pointed out that this could be done on co-operative lines, the peasants being the owners of the factory and sharing the proceeds.\"}"
9494 , "{\"source\":\"Co-operation in Danish Agriculture\",\"author\":\"Harald Faber\",\"year\":1918,\"quote\":\"It was the Danish peasants themselves who found a practical way of developing the dairy industry, and they found this by applying the co-operative principles introduced by the Rochdale weavers. They received no support and only lukewarm sympathy from large farmers and estate owners, until later on when the co-operative dairies were doing so well that even owners of estates with two to three hundred cows found it to their advantage to close their private dairies and to join co-operative dairies.\"}"
9595 , "{\"source\":\"Beekeeping: A Practical Guide\",\"author\":\"Richard Bonney\",\"year\":1993,\"quote\":\"How many of you have been in a classroom or a training program where the instructor says at the outset, \\u201CLook at the person on your right; now look at the person on your left. One of you won\\u2019t be here next year.\\u201D Beekeeping is like that. Furthermore, not all beekeepers are truly beekeepers. Some are beehavers.\"}"
96− , "{\"source\":\"The Monied Metropolis\",\"author\":\"Sven Beckert\",\"year\":2001,\"quote\":\"On February 10, 1897, at the tail end of the most severe economic depression the United States had experienced in the nineteenth century, 700 merchants, industrialists, bankers, and professionals assembled at New York\\u2019s Waldorf-Astoria for a costume ball. [...] Caroline Astor had gems worth $250,000 sewn into her dress. Cornelia Martin, not to be outdone, wore a necklace once owned by none other than Marie Antoinette herself. [...] the rooms themselves were decorated to resemble the great hall of Versailles [...] threats of bombs kept not only New York\\u2019s police but also a hired army of Pinkerton detectives on alert, watching \\u201Cfor thieves or for men of socialistic tendencies.\\u201D As a further precaution, the first-floor windows of the Waldorf Hotel were nailed shut.\"}"
96+ , "{\"source\":\"The Rodale Book of Composting\",\"author\":\"Deborah Martin and Grace Gershuny\",\"year\":1992,\"quote\":\"Earthworms. If bacteria are the champion microscopic decomposers, then the heavyweight champion is doubtless the earthworm. Pages of praise have been written to the earthworm, ever since it became known that this creature spends most of its time tilling and enriching the soil.\"}"
9797 , "{\"source\":\"War is a Racket\",\"author\":\"General Smedley Butler\",\"year\":1935,\"quote\":\"There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making. Hell\\u2019s bells! Are these 40,000,000 men being trained to be dancers?\"}"
9898 , "{\"source\":\"Root Cellaring\",\"author\":\"Mike and Nancy Bubel\",\"year\":1991,\"quote\":\"What is not so widely acknowledged is that the soil in which your plants grow can influence the keeping quality of the vegetables you harvest. According to studies reported in E. P. Shirakov\\u2019s \\u201CPractical Course in Storage and Processing of Fruits and Vegetables\\u201D, abundant potash in the soil promotes long storage life of fruits and vegetables grown on that soil.\"}"
9999 , "{\"source\":\"Angora Goats the Northern Way\",\"author\":\"Susan Black Drummond\",\"year\":1985,\"quote\":\"Because of its long wearing qualities and resistance to soil, mohair was once a major upholstery fabric in this country, and was the seat cover material in many cars and in British Railroad seats. The synthetic fiber craze put an end to mohair use as upholstery fabric here.\"}"
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ quoteList =
103103 , "{\"source\":\"Farmers of Forty Centuries\",\"author\":\"F. H. King\",\"year\":1911,\"quote\":\"The Sikiang is one of the great rivers of China and indeed of the world. Its width at Wuchow at low water was nearly a mile and our steamer anchored in twenty-four feet of water to a floating dock made fast by huge iron chains reaching three hundred feet up the slop to the city proper, thus providing for a rise of twenty-six feet in the river at its flood stage during the rainy season.\"}"
104104 , "{\"source\":\"How to Grow More Vegetables\",\"author\":\"John Jeavons\",\"year\":1974,\"quote\":\"If you are having trouble with birds eating the berries in your berry patch, you could erect a wren house in the middle of it. Wrens are insectivores, and they will not bother the berries. But they will attack any bird, however large, that comes near their nest.\"}"
105105 , "{\"source\":\"Confidence Men and Painted Women\",\"author\":\"Karen Halttunen\",\"year\":1982,\"quote\":\"Even one\\u2019s neighbor next door, as a visitor to Pittsburgh commented in 1818, might be a stranger: \\u201CA next door neighbor is, with them, frequently unknown, and months and years pass, without their exchanging with each other the ordinary compliments of friendship and goodwill.\\u201D\"}"
106− , "{\"source\":\"Secondhand Time\",\"author\":\"Svetlana Alexievich\",\"year\":2016,\"quote\":\"I couldn't understand what was going on. I remember seeing Gaidar on TV saying, "learn how to sell... The market will save us..." You buy a bottle of mineral water on one corner and sell it on another—that's business. The people listened, bewildered. I would come home, lock the door, and weep.\"}"
106+ , "{\"source\":\"Secondhand Time\",\"author\":\"Svetlana Alexievich\",\"year\":2016,\"quote\":\"I couldn\\u2019t understand what was going on. I remember seeing Gaidar on TV saying, \\u201Clearn how to sell... The market will save us...\\u201D You buy a bottle of mineral water on one corner and sell it on another\\u2014that\\u2019s business. The people listened, bewildered. I would come home, lock the door, and weep.\"}"
107107 , "{\"source\":\"Hiroshima\",\"author\":\"John Hersey\",\"year\":1985,\"quote\":\"At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.\"}"
108108 , "{\"source\":\"The Orphan\",\"author\":\"Maxim Gorky\",\"year\":1899,\"quote\":\"On a foggy and rainy day, by the cemetery gate, a small group of people standing in a muddy puddle were bargaining with the cabman. \\u201CFifteen kopeks!\\u201D The tall and heavy-set priest exclaimed in a deep bass, in response to the cabman\\u2019s shouts asking for twenty-five kopecks.\"}"
109109 , "{\"source\":\"Shah of Shahs\",\"author\":\"Ryszard Kapuściński\",\"year\":1982,\"quote\":\"This plane flies out of Teheran every day and lands at Munich at noon. Waiting limousines carry the passengers to elegant restaurants for lunch. After lunch they all fly back to Teheran in the same airplane and eat their suppers at home. Hardly an expensive entertainment, the jaunt costs only two thousand dollars a head. For people in the Shah\\u2019s favor, such a sum is nothing.\"}"