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[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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