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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
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A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.
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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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