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The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.

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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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The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God,… — Antony Hewish
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. — Robert Smithson
When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things. — Saoirse Ronan
I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television… — Dick York
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt… — Benjamin Bratt
Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I… — Toby Jones
Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical… — Frederick Lenz
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed.… — Andrew Weil
Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something… — Per Petterson
Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our… — Haruki Murakami

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