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aber wenn wir uns die Muhe machen und uns umsehen, konnen wir nicht leugnen, dass wir mit unseren taglichen Entscheidungen die Welt gestalten.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Step your mind into a crowded elevator, an elevator so crowded you cannot turn around without bumping into (and aggravating) your neighbor. The elevator is so crowded you are often held aloft. This is a kind of blessing, as the slanted floor is made of wire, which cuts into your feet. After some time, those in the elevator will lose their ability to work in the interest of the group. Some will become violent; others will go mad. A few, depr..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at all.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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people
jofer
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I thought about packing my bags, I thought about jumping out a window, I sat on the bed and thought, I thought about you. What kind of food did you life, what was your favorite song, who was the first girl you kissed, and where, and how, I'm running out of room, I want an infinitely long blank book and forever.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Mi s-a parut foarte emotionant sa-i simt atingerea si sa-mi amintesc ca mainile pot exprima si iubire.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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What do you think is going on?'
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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E il cuore mi va in pezzi, certo, in ogni momento di ogni giorno, in piu pezzi di quanti compongano il mio cuore, non mi ero mai considerato di poche parole, tanto meno taciturno, anzi non avevo proprio mai pensato a tante cose, ed e cambiato tutto, la distanza che si e incuneata fra me e la mia felicita, non era il mondo, non erano le case in fiamme, ero io con il mio pensiero, il cancro di non lasciare mai la presa, l'ignoranza e forse un..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Look, I'm not always right. I realize that. But I'm always strong.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She was also the most lonely and sad. She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could b divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made life wonderful, it's made life possible, when I rub my hands against each other in the middle of winter I am warming myself with the friction of YES and NO, when I clap my hands I am showing my appreciation through the uniting and parting of YES and NO, I signify "book" by peeling open my clapped hands, ever..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Life is upsetting," Irv said. "Like blood is wet."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Are they both special?" He cracked up and said, "Of course their pop is gonna say they're special." "But objectively." "What's that?" "Like, factually. Truthfully." "The truth is I'm their pop."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore."
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death-and-dying
war
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I am the one who broke the rule. But I am the one who made the rule you couldn't live with.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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well! 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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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Food ethics are so complex because food is bound to both taste buds and taste, to individual biographies and social histories.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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After fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland, Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer compared species bias to the "most extreme racist theories." Singer argued that animal rights was the purest form of social-justice advocacy, because animals are the most vulnerable of all the downtrodden. He felt that mistreating animals was the epitome of the "might-makes-right" moral paradigm. We trade their most basic and important interests against fleeting human ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) "meet and exceed requirements" for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that ve..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The ADA takes a conservative stand, leaving out many well-documented health benefits attributable to reducing the consumption of animal products. Here are the three key sentences from the summary of their summary of the relevant scientific literature. One: Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for all individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athlete..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Maybe it's true that you can use up all of your tears...It was nice to think about, because what I wanted was to be empty.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Allora il mio papa merita di stare nell'archivio' 'Cosa ti fa pensare che sia un bene starci?' 'Peche vuol dire che uno e biograficamente significativo' 'E perche, questo e un bene?' 'Io voglio essere significativo.' 'Nove persone significative su dieci hanno a che fare coi soldi o con la guerra
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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American farmers are four times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.)
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I am a very sad person. I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Fish are divided from us by surfaces and silence.
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fish
vegetarianism
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The worst it got was near the end. A lot of people died right at the end, and I didn't know if I could make it another day. A farmer, a Russian, God bless him, he saw my condition, and he went into his house and came out with a piece of meat for me." "He saved your life." "I didn't eat it." "You didn't eat it?" "It was pork. I wouldn't eat pork." "Why?" "What do you mean why?" "What, because it wasn't kosher?" "Of course." "But not even to ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God. Her culinary prowess was one of our family's primal stories, like the cunning of the grandfather I never met, or the single fight of my parents' marriage. We clung to those stories and depended on them to define us. We were the family that chose its battles wisely, and used wit to get out of binds, and loved the food of our matriarch.
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heritage
grandmother
food
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Amami perche l'amore non esiste e io ho provato tutto cio che esiste. Ma la mia ultrabis-ultratriste-nonna non amava Yankel, almeno nel senso semplice e impossibile della parola. In effetti, sapeva ben poco di lui. E lui poco sapeva di lei. Ciascuno conosceva intimamente nell'altro aspetti di se stesso, ma l'altro no. Avrebbe mai potuto immaginare, Yankel, cosa sognasse Brod? E Brod, avrebbe potuto indovinare, se gliene fosse importato, dov..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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And when she said, , she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough to lie.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Cruelty: Not only the willful causing of unnecessary suffering, but the indifference to it.
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suffering
veganism
vegetarianism
cruelty
animals
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The power brokers of factory farming know that their business model depends on consumers not being able to see (or hear about) what they do.
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eating-animals
factory-farming
veganism
vegetarianism
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Hayvanlarin yenmek suretiyle unutulusundan ote, Kafka'ya gore hayvan bedenleri, unutmak istedigimiz tum yanlarimizin unutulusunun da yukunu tasiyordu. Eger dogamizin bir yanini inkar etmek istersek, bundan hayvani dogamiz diye bahsederiz. Bu yanimizi bastirir ya da saklariz ve buna ragmen, Kafka'nin cogumuzdan daha iyi bildigi uzere, bazen uyandigimizda kendimizi yine de sadece bir hayvan olarak buluruz.
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eating-animals
franz-kafka
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Non ci si puo difendere dalla tristezza senza difendersi dalla felicita.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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To give up the taste of sushi or roasted chicken is a loss that extends beyond giving up a pleasurable eating experience. Changing what we eat and letting tastes fade from memory create a kind of cultural loss, a forgetting. But perhaps this kind of forgetfulness is worth accepting --even worth cultivating (forgetting, too, can be cultivated). To remember animals and my concern for their well-being, I may need to lose certain tastes and fin..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?
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vegetarian
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Make us better than we are. Make us good.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In effetti, il piu famoso palazzo di New York e fatto di materiali provenienti da quasi tutti i posti tranne New York, proprio come la citta deve la sua grandezza agli immigrati
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Lui scrisse: Io non so come vivere Neanch'io, ma sto tentando. Non so come tentare
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'd spent so much of my finite time on earth thinking small thoughts, feeling small feelings, walking under doors into unoccupied rooms. How many hours did I spend online, re-watching inane videos, scrutinising listings for houses I would never buy, clicking over to check for hasty e-mails from people I didn't care about? How much of myself, how many words, feelings, and actions, had I forcefully contained? I'd angled myself away from mysel..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of a story is always an absence, and he wanted her to live among presences.
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lies
presence
stories
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |