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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
         

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.


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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.



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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.



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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.



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It's what you do that makes your soul.



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This page presents the quote "When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.". Author of this quote is Barbara Kingsolver. This quote is about scarcity, pie, hungry, people, fear, frightened,.