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

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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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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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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. – Proverb

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. – Wilt Chamberlain

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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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After the game the King and pawn go into the same box. – Italian Proverb

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