"I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened."

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Mark Twain

“It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.”
“More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.”
“Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.”
“If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”
“I don't interest myself that much.”
“The idea that Godâ€™s mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if Iâ€™m deserving of Godâ€™s mercy, Iâ€™ll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard,”
“And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.”
“We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.208, Penguin UK

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