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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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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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