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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.


Wendell Willkie

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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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The one w...
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POPE FRANCIS Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.
VANNA BONTA No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
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to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
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ANON. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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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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