A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
WENDELL L. WILLKIE The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
WENDELL L. WILLKIE In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to...
WENDELL L. WILLKIE I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I k...
WENDELL L. WILLKIE It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the stro...
WENDELL L. WILLKIE No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of...
WENDELL L. WILLKIE The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
WENDELL L. WILLKIE Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty ...
WENDELL L. WILLKIE Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
WENDELL L. WILLKIE The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones
WENDELL L. WILLKIE and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I don't know whether to worship at your feet or spank the living shit out of you.
E.L. JAMES A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the gover...
WENDELL WILLKIE It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the stro...
WENDELL WILLKIE The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
WENDELL WILLKIE If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power host...
WENDELL WILLKIE For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take aw...
WENDELL WILLKIE The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
WENDELL WILLKIE Free men are the strongest men.
WENDELL WILLKIE I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of C...
WENDELL WILLKIE It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside wo...
WENDELL WILLKIE Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to ext...
WENDELL WILLKIE No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into ...
WENDELL WILLKIE But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, a...
WENDELL WILLKIE When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society be...
WENDELL WILLKIE But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
WENDELL WILLKIE It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old
ALBERT SMITH Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN Fifty-one years -- it's been great. It's been a great ride for me.
DICKIE HEMRIC I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
J. K. ROWLING It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
TONY BENN You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust.
JESSICA FORTUNATO Wendell understands it would not be a good idea to change this technological culture, but he's learn...
JAYE MORENCY You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
HENRY MILLER If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it c...
FRANCISCO X. STORK Sweetheart, I’ll be a Marine ‘til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fif...
DEE TENORIO A good filmmaker with a wonderful cast can weave an illusionary spell that goes well beyond analysis...
SUZANNE FIELDS Life is a paradiddle...
R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON One touch of His (God’s) favor can put you fifty years ahead of where you thought you’d be.
JOEL OSTEEN It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freewa...
JOHN WATERS I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.
JULIUS SCHWARTZ I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call m...
RICHARD HOOKER There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth...
MARGARET BUTLER Beware of words that refer to collectives of things for they can obscure our perception.
JIM GENOVESE I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't...
MEG CABOT I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had existed I should have discovered h...
THOMAS HARDY The platinum Omega watch he gave me at breakfast on our first morning in London obscures the red lin...
E.L. JAMES Laters, baby.
E.L. JAMES This is all I know, too. Perhaps together we can chart a new course.
E.L. JAMES Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to coope...
TODD YOUNG I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good ...
SOPHIE TUCKER I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
WILBUR WRIGHT These issues have been deliberated carefully for forty to fifty years. They're undoing that with fal...
DAN MCLAUGHLIN And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
BIBLE Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
BROOKS ROBINSON Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus parti...
ALFRED HERSHEY I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN For many years the National Pretend Speed Limit was fifty-five miles per hour (metric equivalent: 37...
DAVE BARRY I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
HARRY CARAY There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
MAYA ANGELOU you can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but m...
BOB FOSSE No man can eat fifty eggs.
TRE COOL Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
BROOKS ROBINSON I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. JAMES Soy más del tipo de chica de hacerse-ovillo-con-un-libro-en-una-cómoda-silla-junto-al-fuego.
E.L. JAMES And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. ...
E.L. JAMES The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI Every living sentence which shows a mind at work for itself is to be welcomed. It is not the first u...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
HARRY CARAY We had found a marketplace need for this kind of win/loss analysis, a sort of post-event analysis.
DAN WALSH And the baby?" The words are anguished, breathless.
"The baby's fine, Mr. Grey."
"Oh, than...
E.L. JAMES I glance down his body. He's still wearing his shorts and his shirt, and I still have my T-shirt on....
E.L. JAMES This really gives no hope to anybody in Germany for political mobilization. Germans would like one i...
CLAUS LEGGEWIE For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS Don't know about that. I'd love to see The Senders make it to fifty years.
DON SCHOSSOW And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
BIBLE It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for...
JENNIFER DONNELLY One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface ...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easi...
MARY WESLEY The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and t...
WALTER SCOTT I've been doing this kind of work for over fifty years now, and nothing in this strange and frighten...
M.C. ESCHER People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quit...
IAN FLEMING We need to truly learn from this, and know what playing like this can get us. It can get you an 'L' ...
BOBBIE WILLIAMS If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"
"More or less." Brienne answered.
Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR.
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WENDELL L. WILLKIE I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I k...
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WENDELL L. WILLKIE The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
WENDELL L. WILLKIE Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty ...
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WENDELL PIERCE I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
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WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
WENDELL PHILLIPS What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispo...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent;...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stak...
WENDELL PHILLIPS If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
WENDELL PHILLIPS What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
WENDELL PHILLIPS We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
WENDELL MAYES Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
WENDELL MAYES While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
WENDELL JOHNSON I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard...
WENDELL BERRY An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they canno...
WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in...
WENDELL BERRY There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is t...
WENDELL BERRY We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to ...
WENDELL BERRY The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent fo...
WENDELL BERRY These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said...
WENDELL BERRY All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If...
WENDELL BERRY Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are no...
WENDELL BERRY The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
WENDELL BERRY This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I ha...
WENDELL BERRY To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
WENDELL BERRY The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...
WENDELL BERRY If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable m...
WENDELL BERRY Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and s...
WENDELL BERRY The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by ou...
WENDELL BERRY Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh...
WENDELL BERRY Eternal vigilance is the price of libertypower is ever stealing from the many to the few. The hand e...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of previ...
BARRETT WENDELL Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
WENDELL PHILLIPS This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL One on God's side is a majority.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; tr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments a...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 Christianity is a ba...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 The paleontological evidence be...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
WENDELL PHILLIPS We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to the...
WENDELL BERRY Those who say Islam is a warlike religion
must ask if Christianity has been as well.
WENDELL BERRY Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
WENDELL BERRY Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world.
We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant wo...
WENDELL BERRY say that your main crop is the forest.
WENDELL BERRY If you start a conversation with the assumption
that you are right or that you must win,
obviously i...
WENDELL BERRY You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
WENDELL PARSONS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
WENDELL PHILLIPS My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...
WENDELL BERRY In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...
WENDELL BERRY Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
WENDELL JOHNSON Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...
WENDELL BERRY Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The world is whole beyond human knowing.
WENDELL BERRY Christianity is a battle not a dream.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The keener the want the lustier the growth.
WENDELL PHILLIPS What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The heart is the best reflective thinker.
WENDELL PHILLIPS History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee...
WENDELL BERRY As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic,...
WENDELL BERRY Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractica...
WENDELL BERRY It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRY Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis wit...
WENDELL BERRY To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...
WENDELL BERRY The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of ...
WENDELL BERRY To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
WENDELL PHILLIPS I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our pr...
WENDELL BERRY Revolutions are not made, they come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Revolutions never go backward.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; trai...
WENDELL PHILLIPS You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
WENDELL BERRY Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of hum...
WENDELL BERRY What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Responsibility educates.
WENDELL PHILLIPS If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Aristocracy is always cruel
WENDELL PHILLIPS Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Cong...
WENDELL PHILLIPS We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq
resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
WENDELL BERRY People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...
WENDELL BERRY Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: t...
WENDELL PHILLIPS A farmer's market is worth more than
everything I've written.
WENDELL BERRY The earth is what we all have in common.
WENDELL BARRY What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
WENDELL PHILLIPS I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...
WENDELL BERRY Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, ...
WENDELL PIERCE We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good ca...
WENDELL BERRY Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...
WENDELL BERRY We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRY To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation,...
WENDELL PHILLIPS To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
WENDELL PHILLIPS What I stand for is what I stand on.
WENDELL BERRY Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in th...
WENDELL BERRY The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosyste...
WENDELL BERRY Aristocracy is always cruel.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but ...
WENDELL MAYES When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it...
WENDELL BERRY Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRY I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step feari...
WENDELL BERRY Revolutions are not made; they come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
WENDELL BERRY Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan...
WENDELL BERRY Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: th...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait
WENDELL PHILLIPS Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all
wholesale borrowers. In every matte...
WENDELL PHILLIPS In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
WENDELL BERRY On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
WENDELL PHILLIPS You can always get truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up hope of ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; t...
WENDELL PHILLIPS “Eating is an agricultural act.”
WENDELL BERRY Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
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WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
WENDELL BERRY To me, that's not enough punishment. But what I want most from him is an apology.
WENDELL TACKETT If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ...
WENDELL BERRY To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism
WENDELL PHILLIPS Responsibility educates
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WENDELL BERRY Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
WENDELL BERRY Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
WENDELL BERRY It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
WENDELL BERRY Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
WENDELL BYRD With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
WENDELL LAIDLEY I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY Revolutions are not made. They come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stak...
WENDELL PHILLIPS The keener the want the lustier the growth
WENDELL PHILLIPS Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
WENDELL PHILLIPS We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)
Thrush song,...
WENDELL BERRY He came back, but I thought he was a little out of sync early. Late, he was attacking the basket (la...
WENDELL JEFFRIES Warren is a Division 1 player. There's many levels of Division 1 play. He really gets after people o...
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