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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
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When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
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At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.
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