"Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen."

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Source : Interview with Jim Leach, www.neh.gov. May/June 2012.

Wendell Berry

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“As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.”
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”

Source : "Fictional character: Steve McCroskey". "Airplane!", www.imdb.com. 1980.
“It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
“To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.”
“The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.”
“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”
“Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.”
“Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.”

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