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Mary Oliver Quotes: I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.
         

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.


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