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Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because…

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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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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. — A. Whitney Brown
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. — Jean Cocteau
I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was… — Clyde Tombaugh
My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she… — Leonardo DiCaprio
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age… — Ashley Scott
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of… — Herbert Marcuse
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a… — Roland Barthes
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs
Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines… — Alanis Morissette
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. — Aneurin Bevan
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its… — Ludwig von Mises

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