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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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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

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Is there an equivalent to being 'unAmerican' in France? Yes, — but it's about cooking, not about being a bad person.

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Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.

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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown

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But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

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Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people.... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.

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