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Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened…
— Aeschylus
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
— John Bunyan
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It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so…
— John Bunyan
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In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth
— William Shakespeare
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When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself…
— John Climacus
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized…
— Thomas Paine
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The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying…
— William Shakespeare
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This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting…
— Orson Pratt
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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in…
— William Blake
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