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I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition,…

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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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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. — Albert Camus
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have… — Watchman Nee
A word is elegy to what it signifies. — Robert Hass
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what… — Saint Augustine
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats… — Annie Dillard
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. — William Shakespeare
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the… — Baruch Spinoza
Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is… — John Ruskin
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies… — Elijah Muhammad
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will… — Alain Badiou

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