"Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?"

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Jonathan Safran Foer

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Hero Quotes

“I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.”
“I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isnâ€™t conscious; itâ€™s Pavlovian. (13)”
“Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.”
“It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful...”
“I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.”
“My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.”
“A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.”

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