The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

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"People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other."

- Wendell Berry

Awareness

"You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough."

- Wendell Berry

Balance

"We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist."

- Wendell Berry

Creativity

""We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.""

- Wendell Berry

Creativity

"The earth is what we all have in common."

- Wendell Berry

Connection to Earth

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"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

Knowledge

"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

- Wade Boggs

Knowledge

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

Knowledge

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

Knowledge

"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

Knowledge