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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…
• August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
• 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…
• The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
• Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
• Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
• I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
• Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
• When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
• How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
• The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
• 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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