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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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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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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Nature
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry

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My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

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

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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. – Albert Einstein

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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. – William Glasser

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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. – Tom Hanks

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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. – Warren G. Bennis

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