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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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