"The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness of our antibiotics so that they grow faster, and then slaughter them with little regard to their suffering so that we can feed off their corpses, will seem to most people unthinkably cruel and barbarous - sort of in the way that we think of medieval punishments, or Europeans today think of the death penalty."

-- Dale Jamieson

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“I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.”
“A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.”
“The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.”

Source : "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.
“This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

Source : Charles Hodge (1856). “A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians”, p.360
“Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature.”
“I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.”
“One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.”
“I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.”

Source : "Denis O'Hare on bakers, pigs and vampires" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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