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He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding an...

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasional...

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In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty.

So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if ...

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In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a fr...

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Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and convers...

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We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavow...

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Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. socie...

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Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the mos...

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The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciati...

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The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat diff...

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A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slight...

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Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced...

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Kareem Abdul-JabbarOn the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and ha...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to liste...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquenc...

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Max LucadoCast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God

Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.

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Max LucadoCast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a ...

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Primo LeviSurvival in Auschwitz

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sen...

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Simon ArmitageWalking Home: A Poet's Journey

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in ...

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Simon ArmitageWalking Home: A Poet's Journey

So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not b...

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Slavoj ŽižekThe Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who...

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—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes t...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If...

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction