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They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, pre-chewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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