"Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Animal Quotes #Talking Quotes #Pigs Quotes

“Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.”
“You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.”

Source : Song: 212 ftLazy Jay, Album: 1991, 2012
“Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities.”
“If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.”

Source : "The dangers of a closed mind" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2009.
“Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.”
“Y'all ***** ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.”
“Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.225, Penguin
“Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.”

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