"What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?"

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Compassion Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Three Quotes

“I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.”
“In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.”
“The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.”
“A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.
“Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.”
“The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.”
“What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?”

Source : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Great joys, like griefs, are silent.”

Source : Shackerley Marmion (1875). “The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion with Prefatory Memoir: Introduction and Notes”, p.82, Edinburgh : W. Paterson

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