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When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too…

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There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind…
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life…
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the…
A language Older Than Words
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings,…
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to…
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from…
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not…
Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come…
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting…
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us. — Dick Cheney
The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home. — George W. Bush
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When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because… — Doris Day
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When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last… — Ann Coulter
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