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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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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The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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