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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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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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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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Past
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry

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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. – Euripides

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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people wont be put to death. – Paul Simon

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There are three kinds of death in this world. Theres heart death, theres brain death, and theres being off the network. – Guy Almes

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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

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I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just dont know if Im the monarch of all I survey. – Sylvester Stallone

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Only do what your heart tells you. – Princess Diana

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