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We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the…

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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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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne
We are what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut
It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind… — Unknown Author
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. — Socrates
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep… — David Brooks
We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be. — Robert Bloch
Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because… — Unknown Author
Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and… — Unknown Author
At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things… — Adyashanti
We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess.… — K.P. Yohannan
We are lived by powers we pretend to understand. — Wystan Hugh Auden
We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we… — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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