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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

Barbara Kingsolver

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Discipline Funny Things Writing
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People

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