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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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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Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in justice or in affirmation of rights or in defense of peace do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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