Quote by Wendell Berry
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what w

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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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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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry

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Nature
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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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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, thats the next step to being dull. – Joseph Addison

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You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. – Deborah Boliver Boehm

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Identity

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. – Jean Baudrillard

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Identity

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know ones own mind. – Francis H. Bradley

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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. – Elbert Hubbard

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. – Andrea Dworkin

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. – Proverb

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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. – Oswald Chambers

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