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Jonathan Safran Foer

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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Greatness Live Opportunity Ourselves Value
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Children Deep Family Father Lying Myself Parents Promise
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Imagination Myself Ocean Yourself
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Eat Factory Live Ourselves
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Avoid Finding Herself Mirror Powerful
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Person Understand Whisper Yourself
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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Change Choice Community Conscience Family Farm Local Nation Ourselves Word
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Animal Eat Factory Farm Land Talk
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Day Holiday Oneself Thankful
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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Hard Ideas Important Remember Writing
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself

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