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

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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. – Wendell Berry

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Death
Author
Wendell Berry
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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

Category:
Past
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Wendell Berry
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Excellence
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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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Excellence

Resolve to make each day the very best and dont let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them. – Ivan Benson

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Excellence

Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty. – Proverb

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Excellence

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. – Isaac Disraeli

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Excellence

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Its not that the Irish are cynical. Its rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. – Brendan Behan

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summers day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – John Lubbock

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Nature

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didnt always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadnt yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion. – Katherine Dunham

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Education

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three. – Heraclitus

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wedding