If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThey all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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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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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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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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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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