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- Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country…
- Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like…
- There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what…
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God…
- If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make…
- Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
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- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson