Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to … - Barbara Kingsolver

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I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

Barbara Kingsolver

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

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Christian Nestell Bovee

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

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Nalini Nadkarni

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

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Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.

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