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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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Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.
— Sinead O'Connor
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We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say…
— Maurice Sendak
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We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
— Raquel Cepeda
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We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at…
— Nate Silver
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Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God…
— Ann Voskamp
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to…
— Gloria Steinem
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If we aren’t prepared to be counter-cultural we aren’t ready to be Christians.
— Kevin DeYoung
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If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think…
— Natalie Dormer
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The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to…
— Harry Browne
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The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives…
— Ron Paul
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