We played (with) the fifth-ranked team in the state on their home floor. It was a valiant effort by the kids.


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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
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the gover...
WENDELL WILLKIE
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
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the stro...
WENDELL WILLKIE
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
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
WENDELL WILLKIE
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...
WENDELL BERRY
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
WENDELL BERRY
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
WENDELL BERRY
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
WENDELL BERRY
If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power host...
WENDELL WILLKIE
To me, that's not enough punishment. But what I want most from him is an apology.
WENDELL TACKETT
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
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