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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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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.…
— Lily Yeh
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
— H. L. Mencken
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It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to…
— Sun Tzu
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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
— Thucydides
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
— Alexander Pope
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to…
— Winston Churchill
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The readiness is all.
— William Shakespeare
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Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that…
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