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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. – 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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. – Michel de Montaigne

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Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. – Arabic Proverb

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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. – Christy Turlington

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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? – Barry Goldwater

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Theres been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldnt have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I cant count the ways a directors vision is compromised. – Lili Taylor

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. – John Berry

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