"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
-Barbara Kingsolver
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"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.“
-Barbara Kingsolver
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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."
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"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."
-Barbara Kingsolver
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves."
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"The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy."
-Carly Fiorina
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"I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise."
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"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."
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"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
-Gerald R. Ford
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"I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman."
-Bob Kane
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
-Lewis Thomas
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