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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
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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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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
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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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What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
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