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“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”
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“What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, thestake.org. January 30, 2014. 
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“When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.”
Source : Roger Scruton (2009). “The Roger Scruton Reader”, p.95, A&C Black
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“The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.”
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“Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.”
Source : Solomon Schechter (1970). “Studies in Judaism: Essays on Persons, Concepts, and Movements of Thought in Jewish Tradition”
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“Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.”
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“We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.”
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“I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.”
