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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar…
— Garth Brooks
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible…
— Tom Allen
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I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary.…
— Trey Anastasio
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war…
— J. William Fulbright
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part…
— Bill McKibben
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside…
— Diane Ackerman
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat…
— Natalie Babbitt
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are…
— Iannis Xenakis
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
— Horace Walpole
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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