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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.…
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more…
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,…
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say…
— William Ralph Inge
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The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It…
— Edward Teller
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by…
— Noam Chomsky
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Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me…
— Larry Ellison
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
— Gustave Flaubert
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In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Is human love the growth of the human will ?
— Ellen Key
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
— Stephen Covey
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Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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