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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
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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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.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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