"We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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"Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.“
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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"There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food."
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"I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion."
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"Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things."
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"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?"
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
-James Hal Cone
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
-Saint Bernard
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
-Wayne Newton
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
-H. C. Bailey
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"I've always had great faith in people."
-Wayne Newton
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
-Joanna Trollope
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