Quotern

Quotern

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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I read because I love the experience, because it is a powerful teacher of life, because it transforms me.

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I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

-- Jamie Lee Curtis

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Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us

-- Seneca

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Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.

-- Timothy Keller

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As you change your thoughts and your mental vision, you are changing your reality.

-- Alice Hocker

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The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

-- John Trudell

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You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

-- Tom Tancredo

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What wise or stupid thing can man conceive That was not thought of in ages long ago?

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

-- Patricia Heaton

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