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That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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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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