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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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In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that…
— Jack Kornfield
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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women.
— Tom Cotton
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It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the…
— Unknown Author
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Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from…
— Pope Pius X
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The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant…
— Erich Auerbach
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The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others
— Publilius Syrus
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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
— John Milton
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When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please…
— John Tillotson
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As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air
— Samuel Garth
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It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once…
— Alexander Pope
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