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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
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
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Education Order School
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Thinking Wise Writing
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
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

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