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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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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist
— Ethel Merman
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty…
— Wendell Berry
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In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
— Maimonides
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On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and…
— H. L. Mencken
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
— Billy Joel
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What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario,…
— John D. Rockefeller
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What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
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What is a heart? An organ that makes your blood pump faster. Only a Sophisticate knows consciously or not what makes her…
— Debbie Pfisterer
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