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"This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting-to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality."
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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."
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"Talk without the support of action means nothing."
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"When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians."
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"People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice."
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"The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories."
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"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."
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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
Food
"Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: It behooved our hunter gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine."
Evolution
"Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again."
Nature
"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
Anxiety
"Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward."
Imagination
"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."
Environment
"I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification."
Change
"Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist."
Life
"Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share."
Behavior
"Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically."
Nature
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