I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERChoosing 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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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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