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Siapa yang menguasai tanah, maka dia akan menguasai ekonomi. Siapa yang menguasai ekonomi, maka dia akan menguasai politik. Siapa yang menguasai politik, maka dia akan menguasai negara.
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― Dunia Orang Tompu
― Dunia Orang Tompu
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As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to other of the highest and best feelings to which mankind has risen." It seems to me that, regarding agrarian art, the farther it moves away from the natural world, especially when the main goal is money profits, the more difficult it becomes for it to reflect "the highest and best feelings" of humanity. The same is true of, of course, of agriculture itself. The farther it
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― The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse
― The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse
