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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Barbara Kingsolver

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
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
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
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
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking

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