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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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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the…
— Teresa of Avila
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He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input…
— Ludwig von Mises
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He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and…
— John Owen
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I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon…
— Aubrey Newman
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The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
— James Madison
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There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.
— Unknown Author
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When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the…
— Stephen Covey
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Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from…
— Seneca the Younger
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I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness -…
— Richard Gilman
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The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within…
— Boyd K. Packer
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