Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what … - Barbara Kingsolver

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The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.

Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Grow, Grows, Life, Small, Willing, Wonder

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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

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It's what you do that makes your soul.

Dream, Rabbits, Soul

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Conspicuous, Consumption, Errors, Limited Resources, Spiritual, Widely

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Adults, Children, Medicate, People

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Country, Intentions, Like, Motivational, Protection, Summer

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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

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Hey, I can cook. " "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest. " "I've never had any complaints. " "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword. " "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk. " Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.

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The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.

Health, Order, Rights, Threat, World

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