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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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