The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
("Animal, Vegetable, Miracle")
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Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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