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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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