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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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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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, 'when I looked for light, then came darkness.' Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
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The way that we cheered whenever our team was scoring a touchdown,The time that the floor fell out of my car when I put the clutch down.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
