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

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As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association and affection. – Wendell Berry

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Technology
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they cant be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. – Wendell Berry

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Food
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry

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Gardens
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To the Masters honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newtons ground. – Albert Einstein

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

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Excellence

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

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Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. – Henry Drummond

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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. – Benjamin Franklin

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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce

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