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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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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Identity
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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. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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Nature
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As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association and affection. – Wendell Berry

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All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women. – Germaine Greer

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[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. – Joseph Hall (1574–1656), Bishop of Norwich, The Breathings of the Devout S

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Death

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. – Nancy Reagan

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Death

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Death

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Maybe when I stop making movies, Ill understand my work better. – Dario Argento

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Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. – Jim Samuels

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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

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