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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Barbara Kingsolver

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
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
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 changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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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
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

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