Wendell Berry Quotes
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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I am trying every genre.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?' (to an inattentive audience while campaigning)-Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek
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It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.
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It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.
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Opposites and contradictions, that is our harmony.
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Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.
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Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
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He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.
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I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
