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

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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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