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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

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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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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for. — Jonathan Safran Foer
They missed a great opportunity to shut up. — Jacques Chirac

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