Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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Women just love to shop.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We're changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking up each other's dresses. Fear's the only issue the Republican Party has. Vote for them, or the terrorists will win. That's not what Reagan was about. I hate to think about our soldiers over in Iraq fighting for a country that's slipping away.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
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I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.