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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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Book Design Fascination Myself Poem Yourself
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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Laughter Myself Room Small
I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Confusion Myself
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
I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Excellence Life Limitation Thinking
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Break Fingers Hands Herself Silence
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
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
Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself

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