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Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only…

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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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Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again. — Jackie Chan
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they… — Rajneesh
The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents. — Shinichi Suzuki
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother… — George J. Mitchell
Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta… — Giada De Laurentiis
I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be… — Robert De Niro
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is… — Saint Augustine
He’s very close to his family His parents have been married 40 years. He’s got a pure heart. That’s all that matters—he’s got the purest… — Gisele Bundchen
...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the… — Mike Birbiglia
He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to… — Thomas Jefferson
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got… — Carl Safina

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