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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Barbara Kingsolver

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
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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Dirt might Today
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
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
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
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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Land Stupid Thinking
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

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