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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Better Car Force Home Media Parents Point Politics
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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Bad Character Goodness Myself Person Unknown
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
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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We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Protect Sadness Yourself
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Change Live Ourselves Respond
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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