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At home, growing up, we werent really poor. We had everything we n

At home, growing up, we werent really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didnt have what we wanted. – Barbara Kingsolver

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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. – 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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Every woman Ive had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when Im at home, I clam up and wont discuss anything intimate or personal. – Jarvis Cocker

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Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life. – Lionel Blue

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Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people. – Kinky Friedman

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A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home. – John Shadegg

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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of mans being, unfolding itself in thought. – Karl Jaspers

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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. – Melissa Bean

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