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I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a…

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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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Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked… — Stephen Baldwin
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man.… — Jo Brand
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great
I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then… — Eric Carr
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of… — Betty Buckley
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are… — Diane Ackerman
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At… — River Phoenix
As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak… — Kathleen Turner
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up… — Winston Churchill
I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. — Julie Kagawa
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the… — Wole Soyinka
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier… — Ian Mckellen

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