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Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.
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It was well known to all members of the campus population that other, unnamed groups reaped unimagined monetary advantages in comparison to the monetary disadvantages of one's own group, and that if funds were distributed fairly, according to real merit, for once, some people would have another think coming.
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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
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When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
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September 26, 1949
(age 75)
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