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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
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You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
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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.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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