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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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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
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
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
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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Church Pyramid Scheme
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong
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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Children Littles Magic
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
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
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation

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