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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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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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Food
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. – Wendell Berry

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Hope
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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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Technology
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Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Past

The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson

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Past

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

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Past

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Past

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a childrens party taken over by the elders. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Im very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasnt fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse. – Wale

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future. – Joel A. Barker

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This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people. – Mitt Romney

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