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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be mitigated by mercy. And you don't get to mercy by a legal principle. You get to mercy by way of imagination, sympathy, tenderness of heart - which are not weaknesses.
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
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