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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. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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After All Ancient Case Earth Most Please Responsibility Worthy
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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Badly Disease Effection Enough Etaliate Gravely Neighbors Offend Poverty Resoinsinble True Truth Ugliness
I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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Above Boy Bright Else Humble Make Myself Origin Out Something
My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Belief Condition Gift Life Our World
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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All Deal Decsioson Know More Nature Our Party Politician She Vote We Whether
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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Alone Belong God Know Nevertheless Seek Take True Truth Whose
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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Come Forethought Grief Into Live Peace Tax Thing Wild
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Absurd Clearly Food Interest Production
I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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More Talker Writer
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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