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A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

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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