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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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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. – Wendell Berry

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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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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. – Jim Morrison

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Well, theres a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. – Miguel de Cervantes

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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. – George Santayana

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Good writing is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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Ah me! why may not love and life be one? – Henry Timrod

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Whats the subject of life – to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. – Paul A. Volcker

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The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. – William Falconer

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