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Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton
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The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

Josiah Strong
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The fact that terminator technology will work to the disadvantage of the subsistence farmer who depends on harvesting seeds for the next year's crops illustrates the intent of the companies, which is to get the maximum return on their investment.

Jane Rissler
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

George Berkeley
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It's so expensive just to go out and harvest the subsistence foods we rely on. Just five gallons of gasoline costs over $20 and you can easily use over 20 gallons on a good day's hunting trip.

Simeon John
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In the late 19th and early 20th century, many states began to regulate fish and game harvests, and they gave great priority to sport hunting and sport fishing. They set very short seasons, they restricted the kind of gear that could be used and that interfered with Indian subsistence patterns that had been going on for centuries.

Marc Slonin
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Products of the breeding programs are bound to play increasingly important roles in subsistence agriculture. Whether new hybrids eventually replace cultivars that are used by the export trades, however, remains to be seen. In the end analysis, we believe that resistant bananas will be our best defense against diseases in subsistence and export situations alike.

Randy Ploetz
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We were poor, almost totally dependent on the federal government for subsistence. And that's not good for a people to have to depend on someone else. It tears at your spirit. And this is what Indian tribes have gone through throughout the history of this country. Gaming is helping us out of that mentality and now we're helping ourselves and that's exciting.

Chief Joyce Dugan
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Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.

Margaret Drabble
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