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Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. Its the capa

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. Its the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone elses pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver

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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. Its a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Religion
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Ive always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Science
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I cant imagine what kind of writer Id be if I didnt have my kids. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Future
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War
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We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we dont control that. If politicians want a war we dont control that. Acts of terrorism, we cant control them. – will.i.am

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War

We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. – Havelock Ellis

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War

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. Were reaching a time that well acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. – Maya Lin

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War

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director whos never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you dont look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. – Steven Spielberg

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War

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I thought, well, you might see curves there, but thats just a bone – so even if I lose weight thats not going to change anything. Thats how I look. Thats my shape. Do the math. – Christina Hendricks

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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope. – Maya Angelou

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Hope

I am lord of myself, accountable to none. – Benjamin Franklin

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Independence

We cant equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And thats not just measured in words or gestures. – Jennifer Granholm

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strength