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She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close to the door,…

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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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Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should… — Samuel Logan Brengle
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower… — A. E. Housman
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts… — J. Frank Dobie
When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second,… — Emilio Estevez
Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at… — Bill Maher
I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was… — Carl Perkins
Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior! — Philip Bliss
Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path… — Jeffrey R. Holland
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