"Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?"
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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"We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.“
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
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"I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things."
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"Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car."
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"Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity."
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"There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food."
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
-Babatunde Olatunji
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Winston Churchill
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
-Auguste Rodin
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
-David McCullough
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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