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An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.
David Korten
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I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.
Dan Jenkins
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If I heard a girl crying help
I would go to save her;
But you hardly ever hear those words.
Dear children, you must try to say
Something when you are in need.
Don't confuse hunger with greed;
And don't wait until you are dead.
Ruth Stone
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
John Gregory Brown
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Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love.
Frederick Knott
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Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
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The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.
Paula Gunn Allen
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Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.
Catherine Marshall
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Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.
Megan Abbott
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Life is full of opportunities to feel exactly the way
you want to feel.
Danielle LaPorte
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The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.
Norris Church Mailer
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I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.
Dinaw Mengestu
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I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?
David Budbill
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Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.
Scott Sanders (novelist)
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I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.
Peter Mayle
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To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
Marnie Reed Crowell
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If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.
Sam Hamill
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She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.
Janet Campbell Hale
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Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.
Sara Henderson
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The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.
David Jeremiah
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The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.
Kay Arthur
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Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Kathryn Hulme
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I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.
Jim Shepard
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Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.
Donald Hamilton
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