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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 of a tortured…
- The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other…
- We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic…
- I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.
- Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
- Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the…
- Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration.…
- As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.
- To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
- Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It…
- [Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it…
- Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to…
- We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed…
- I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the…
- I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a…
- 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…
- I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil…
- Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human…
- Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But…
- We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has…
- We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it
- Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more…
- In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children,…
- I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
- We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me,…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour