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“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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“So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.”
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“Choosing to eat fewer animal products is probably the most important action an individual can take to reverse global warming—it has a known and significant effect on the environment, and, done collectively, would push the culture and the marketplace with more force than any march.”
― We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
― We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
“Changing how we eat will not be enough, on its own, to save the planet, but we cannot save the planet without changing how we eat.”
― We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
― We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
“And you can't force someone to believe, not even with better and louder and more virtuous arguments, not even with irrefutable evidence”
― We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
― We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
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