Wendell Berry Quotes
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
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The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
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I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.
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We'd like to see Patrick continue to make the real good plays he's made and eliminate the bad ones, ... We need to be efficient.
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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
