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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
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
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
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water

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