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"She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient."
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"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."

"When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake."

"I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community."

"We need the vision of interbeing-we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this is the well-being of "that, so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side; there is no evil side."

"I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live."

"Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already."

"As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything."

"Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers."

"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."

"What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?"
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"If chained is where you have been, your ams will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from."

"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."

"How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ..."

"She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink."

"And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day."

"When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can."

"In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included."

"Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages."
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