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

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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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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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry

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

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Excellence

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

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Excellence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

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No road is long with good company. – Turkish Proverb

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. – Aristotle

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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. – Robert Browning

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Art

It never occurred to me that Id be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way. – Camryn Manheim

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