"I see myself as someone who makes things.……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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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;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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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…
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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…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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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…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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More Constrain Quotes
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Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a…
— Alain Robert
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Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting…
— Kofi Annan
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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot…
— Hyman Minsky
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even…
— Karl Jaspers
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains…
— Hilary Mantel
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Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge…
— Judy Chu
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To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster…
— Cornel West
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