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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. – Wendell Berry

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

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Past

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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Past

We need not destroy the past. It is gone. – John Cage

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Past

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

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Past

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. – Benjamin Disraeli

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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. – Erich Fromm

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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau

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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. – John F. Kennedy

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