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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Money
Regardless
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Greed
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Global
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