"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, Humanity, Observation, Emotion, Truth

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"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."

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"I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment."

Myriam Miedzian, American Actress

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"I can't remember exactly when I started to steal, but I do remember being aware of the fact that if I wanted to enjoy myself and be popular, money was the way to do it."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"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, Humanity, Observation, Emotion, Truth

"A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals."

Time, Animals, Rights, Law

"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

Food, Energy, Land

"Wet milling (to produce starch) is an energy-intensive way to make food; for every calorie of processed food it produces, another ten calories of fossil fuel energy are burned."

Science, Energy, Food, Environment

"Yet the organic label itself-like every other such label in the supermarket-is really just an imperfect substitute for direct observation of how a food is produced, a concession to the reality that most people in an industrial society haven't the time or the inclination to follow their food back to the farm, a farm which today is apt to be, on average, fifteen hundred miles away."

Awareness, Food, Observation, Reality

"Even in the pages of the New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet 'virtuous,' when applied to an act of personal environmental responsibility, may be used only ironically. Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue - a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue - become a mark of liberal softheadedness? How peculiar, that doing the right thing by the environment - buying the hybrid, eating like a locavore - should now set you up for the Ed Begley Jr. treatment."

Responsibility, Environment, Ethics, Behavior

"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."

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"By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kernels) goes to feeding livestock, and much of that goes to feeding America's 100 million beef cattle."

Environment, Agriculture, Knowledge, Food, Economics

"The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world."

Environment, Responsibility, Sustainability, Action

"So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer."

Environment, Industry, Suffering, Nature