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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
WENDELL WILLKIE
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
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The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
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When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
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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...
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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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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
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
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Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
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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....
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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 ...
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No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
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...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
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We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
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Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
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Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
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