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If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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