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How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.

Frances Moore Lappé

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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Oregon
Frances Moore Lappe
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in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.
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[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.
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[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.
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