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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
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But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.
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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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