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In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything…

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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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Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul,… — Paul of the Cross
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our… — Alphonsus Liguori
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it… — Ambrose Bierce
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color?… — Aaron Spelling
The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology. — Unknown Author
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,'… — Charles Eisenstein
Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle! — Dana Carvey
Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out. — Charles Ghigna
Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same… — John Cornyn
A turtle does come in it's own bowl — Mike Dirnt
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all. — Harvey Mackay
Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does… — Mary Alice

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