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Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care…
— Kobe Bryant
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
— Thomas Paine
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I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
— George Eliot
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction,…
— Nikola Tesla
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
— James C. Collins
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Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
— Al Gore
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
— William Vaughn Moody
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because…
— Aberjhani
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.…
— Richard Rolle
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To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all…
— Carl Jung
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