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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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Appearance Easy Eat Goodness Social Society Way
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
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
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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Family Food Herself Offering Terror Tree
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Erase Happiness Oneself Pain
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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Factory People Reality See Willing
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
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Believe Future Greatness Learning Time Treat
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
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
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

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