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4ded890
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A good book will give you answers to questions you didn't know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.
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food-for-thought
knowledge
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Beth Revis |
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And what the hell does that even mean? Why would you serve food for thoughgs, and what kind of food? If you serve spinach, do you get healthy thoughts? If it's ice cream and candy, it is fun thoughts? Why do we say stupid things?
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food-for-thought
funny-and-random
thoughts
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J.D. Robb |
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Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight.
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fear
food-for-thought
fresh-complaint
night
psyche
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.
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food-for-thought
meat
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is...emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come.
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american-culture
american-society
food-for-thought
modern-problems
philosophy
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagine you're looking at something out of mythology: all this golden sunlight brought down to earth, captured in kernels of gold, and rendered fit for mortals to eat. But of course this is no myth at all, just the plain miraculous fact.
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field
food-for-thought
nature
wheat
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Michael Pollan |
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[Lying is] a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are... The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.
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fantasy-fiction
food-for-thought
makes-you-think
young-adult
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Michael J. Sullivan |
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Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.
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food-for-thought
founding-fathers
slavery
slavery-history
slavery-in-the-united-states
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Howard Zinn |