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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. – Wendell Berry

Other quotes by Wendell Berry

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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Nature
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. – Wendell Berry

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positive
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. – Wendell Berry

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Competition
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Theres a way to do better… find it. – Thomas Alva Edison

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Let each become all that he was created capable of being. – Thomas Carlyle

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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. – Aristotle

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I start where the last man left off. – Thomas Alva Edison

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Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. – John C. Maxwell

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I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another. – Sir John Vanbrugh

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A book that is shut is but a block. – Thomas Fuller

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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. – Desmond Tutu

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