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Quote by Wendell Berry
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without

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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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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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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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

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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. – Katharine Hepburn

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I cant turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, Im sick to death of me. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but its not unfamiliar to you. Its always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. – Bell Hooks

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I am not afraid of death, I just dont want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen

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