Wendell Berry Quotes
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.
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I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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Widowed wife and wedded maid.
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The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?
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Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were decent. If they'd lived, life woulda bin diff'rent, eh?' 'Yeah, I s'pose,' said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed to be in a very strange mood. 'Family,' said Hagrid gloomily. 'Whatever yeh say, blood's important.
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It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
