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Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you…

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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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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any… — David Brainerd
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself… — Thomas a Kempis
Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it… — George Washington
Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely. — Robert G. Allen
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on… — Margaret Thatcher
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess… — Ziggy Marley
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself… — Ignatius Loyola
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am… — Francine Rivers

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