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Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

by Beth Macy (Goodreads Author)

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A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming

by Walter Brueggemann

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Josephine’s Quotes

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
― George Saunders

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“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

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“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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