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Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids…

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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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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for… — Mario Puzo
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. — Steve Spurrier
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be… — Emmet Fox
What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant,… — David S. Baxter
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the… — Milton Friedman
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even… — Phyllis Bottome
It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just… — Khem Veasna
It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly… — H. L. Mencken
The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human… — Yusuf Idris
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had… — Steve Spurrier
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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