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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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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in…
— Gabriel Byrne
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own…
— Joseph Campbell
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by…
— Deepak Chopra
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Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
— Margaret Fuller
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When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers…
— Oswald Chambers
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere…
— Matthieu Ricard
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In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no…
— Rajneesh
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The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,…
— Rajneesh
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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…
— Susan Sontag
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When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.
— Thomas J. Sargent
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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney…
— Aberjhani
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These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
— Cary Cooper
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