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She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

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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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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy… — Scott Adams
We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit… — Kobe Bryant
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds
Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex. — Al Goldstein
If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on… — David Oliver Relin
When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center. — Gary Allan
When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't… — Juliana Hatfield
I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer. — Benjamin Walker
One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing… — Charles Portis
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. — Eric Hoffer
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott

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