"Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows."

-- Norm Phelps

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“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”
“When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.”
“If I do marry I want it to be for love”
“The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.”
“We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.”
“When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.”
“If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.”

Source : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
“Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.”

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