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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.

— Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams (1990)

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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

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