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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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I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed…
— Albert Hofmann
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I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental…
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I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I…
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Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their…
— Frederick Lenz
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Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my…
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You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing…
— Michael Ondaatje
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They always assumed that I did not speak. That I could not. So many had plotted my death, discussed it, laughed about…
— Karen Chance
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Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they…
— Mark McKinnon
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The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the…
— Rene Cassin
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When we are angry and we lash out it is hurtful. Because we say whatever come to our lips, we tend not…
— Glen Rambharack
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A lot of problems could be fixed if people listened instead of yelled, and if they asked more than they assumed.
— SONYA PARKER
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