Wendell Berry Quotes
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
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It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
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There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.
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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
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Sting is a father figure to us all.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
