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• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
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• You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. — Michael Pollan
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• Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody… — Caryl Phillips
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• I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me — Frank Herbert
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