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When you play with a lead you have to be patient and involve your teammates. I saw a conscious effort on the part of everyone to make the extra pass.


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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 ...
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