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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship


Wendell Phillips

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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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ANONYMOUS Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not ...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is ...
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PAUL BOESE I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best re...
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TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
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JAMES E. FAUST A poor original is better than a good imitation.
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Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's obviously disappointing to see this happen and we find it totally unacceptable behavior, as doe...
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EDGAR BENNETT Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to u...
HENRY B. EYRING Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
Therefore, we must be saved by hope....
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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 But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, a...
WENDELL WILLKIE It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
WENDELL BERRY 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 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,...
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