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Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

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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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Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if… — William Whately
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but… — Ursula K. Le Guin
When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment… — Charles Spurgeon
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now… — Dante Alighieri
I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure. — Amitabh Bachchan
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs… — Walter Scott
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe… — Jane Austen
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. — Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky… — Elizabeth Kim
We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament… — Swami Vivekananda
Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts… — Unknown Author

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