"Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?"

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Suffering Quotes #Literature Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I just really like to find my own ideas.”
“Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.”

Source : John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.46, A-R Editions, Inc.
“life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre”
“The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person”
“I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.”
“He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Parisâ€”but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.”
“The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.”
“As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.”

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