"The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.”

Source : Ryuho Okawa (2005). “The Philosophy of Progress: How to Develop Infinite Prosperity”, p.9, Lantern Books
“When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do this, it would be so that future generations - my kids or my sister's kids - would grow up seeing themselves in their media culture in a way that I didn't. If The Mindy Project or Master of None were on when I was growing up, I wonder if I would be interested in doing this at all”
“Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?”
“A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.”
“I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.”
“A tear-drop of green.”
“As many times as [HIV] changes its clothes, it's still wearing the same socks, and now our job is to make sure we get the body to really hate those socks.”
“The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.”

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