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There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

     Tennessee Williams

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Ask the world to reveal its quietude -

not the silence of machines when they are still,

but the true quiet by which birdsongs,

trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms

become what they are, and are nothing else.

Wendell Berry (Sabbaths 2001, III)

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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Miller

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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of

fighting a foreign enemy.

-James Madison, fourth US president (1751-1836)