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Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our…
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to…
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I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our…
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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members…
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Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global…
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There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth…
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My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner…
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At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns…
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Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit…
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As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I…
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In this country of the bountiful harvest, everyone can have enough to eat - we have it! We grow enough for everyone.…
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We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel…
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