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Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and…

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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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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. — Tony Benn
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year… — Brooks Stevens
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today… — Mary Catherine Bateson
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. — Martin Freeman
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece… — Studs Terkel
God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence. — Vikas Swarup
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk… — Bruce Sterling
Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress. — Henry Ford II
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. — Brooks Stevens
Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created… — Vincent Canby
Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory… — Keith B. McCutcheon
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to… — Burton Richter

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