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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
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The only true and effective operator's manual for spaceship earth is not a book that any human will ever write it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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