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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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But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.…
— Sarah Vowell
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
— Wendell Berry
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Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism?…
— Sara Ahmed
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The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we…
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious…
— Dennis Miller
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Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in…
— Libba Bray
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Oh, that clock! Old killjoy. I hear you. Come on, get up, you say, Time to start another day. Even he orders…
— Cinderella
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