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Won Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
- 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.…
- Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's…
- Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo,…
- What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge.…
- But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't…
- The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And…
- There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always…
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