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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
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. – Wendell Berry

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Hope
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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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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. – Francis Darwin

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

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Excellence

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

Whatever you do, dont do it halfway. – Bob Beamon

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Excellence

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