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Quote by Wendell Berry
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process

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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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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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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Its hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I dont think its necessarily broader or smarter. – Robert Redford

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Technology

Im in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price. – Walter Jon Williams

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Technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

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We have the new greatest generation. We dont need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers. – Joe Wilson

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For time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

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I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. – John Podesta

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