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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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I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the…
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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this…
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By being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves...
— Edgar Cayce
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Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the…
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Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central…
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It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because…
— Rene Descartes
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline,…
— Ruth Behar
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It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands…
— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus…
— Unknown Author
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As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its…
— Annie Dillard
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There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that…
— Norman Mailer
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One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the…
— John F. Kennedy
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