Quote by Wendell Berry
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and

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

Other quotes by Wendell Berry

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. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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Nature
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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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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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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. – Earl Campbell

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The Law of Win/Win says, Lets not do it your way or my way; lets do it the best way. – Greg Anderson

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Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us. – Gil Atkinson

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – Rabindranath Tagore

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What is home?
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Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart. – Beverley Mitchell

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