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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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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Mutual funds, who have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, who have made the representation that they will do what's reasonable to stop these trades, and then they take payments for allowing these trades to take place -- they're in deep trouble.
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After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
