Quote by Wendell Berry
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to es

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 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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Death
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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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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry

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Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. – Ralph Blane

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