Thursday, May 31, 2012

A Harsh Truth

More people live off cancer than die from it.

Dr. Deepak Chopra

(apologies for the misprint earlier)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Vegetarian Diet

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.   

--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

 

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn!  You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!  Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.   

George Bernard Shaw

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How can you eat anything with eyes?   

Will Kellogg

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.   

George Bernard Shaw

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Being a meat eater is really expensive, even if you don't count the cost of chemo.

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My situation is a solemn one.  Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks.  But death is better than cannibalism.  My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small travelling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.   

George Bernard Shaw
 
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.   

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Loss

Swallow a loss and learn a lesson.


A gain is no joy, nor a loss any grief.
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him.
It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
 

Joseph Sobran