If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

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Mots clés road journey walking

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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

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Mots clés conservation preservation

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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

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Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

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Mots clés poetry poets anti-war

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Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

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Mots clés inspirational

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As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.

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Mots clés essays-of-wendell-berry

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