The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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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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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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What does it remember like?
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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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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