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

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir

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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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Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

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Im not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. – Paris Hilton

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. – Mahatma Gandhi

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