"I took classical piano lessons from the age of five."

-- Eddie Van Halen

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“Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.”

Source : Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.289, Souvenir Press
“Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.”
“Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.”
“I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
“Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.”
“The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.”
“To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.”

Source : "Alone in the Wilderness". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.
“A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.”

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