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• If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question of argument, it is not a question of scriptures, it is not who says what, it is not a question of calculating that if you take vegetarian food you will become spiritual; it is automatic. It is not a question of cunningness, you simply become spiritual. The whole thing seems so absurd. Just for food, killing animals, birds, seems so absurd, it falls down.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Hurt, Fall

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• It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Vegetarianism, Differences

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• Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards the earth. When you are a vegetarian you are light and you are more under the law of grace, under the law of power, and you start gravitating towards the sky.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Light, Vegetarianism

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

  Morarji Desai

  Compassion, People, Sometimes

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.

  Ed Buckner

  Animal, Men, Hands

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• I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

  Al Gore

  Cutting, Meat, Climate Change

  "Al Gore Goes Vegan" By Ashley Alman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• There are people that are vegetarians that love bacon.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People

  "Jim And Jeannie Gaffigan Talk "The Jim Gaffigan Show". Interview with Lauren Yapalater and Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. May 28, 2015.

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• I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

  Al Gore

  Long, Survival, Chance

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• Srikkanth is a vegetarian. If he swallows a fly, he will be in trouble

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Trouble, Ifs

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• I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Yoga, And Love

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• I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

  Davey Havok

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been fairly standoffish; I have this tendency not to get to know people very well. And I don't think there is any better way to get to know humanity than to ingest it.

  John S. Hall

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  "Song: "Eating People" ("The Psychopathology of Everyday Life")". January 21, 2003.

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• My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Names, Add, Labels

  PETA's Millennium Concert, 1999.

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• Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.

  John Muir

  Heart, Animal, Drawing

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• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Two, Next Day

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• Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sweet, Thinking, Two

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

  Joan Rivers

  Common Sense, Fur, Common

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• My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Real, Independent, Decision

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• I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Prayer, Believe

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• The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Discovery, Blood

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• I had a good few years where I was a little wild and off the leash. I don't really partake in drugs any more. I occasionally have a little dabble, very occasionally. I have no specific health routine. I'm vegetarian, my wife's nearly 20 years younger than me, good luck, good genes, sunshine.

  Wayne Hussey

  Good Luck, Sunshine, Drug

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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• Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Abuse, Needs

  Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, Rodale Books

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• The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Selfish, Thinking, Years

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• I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Vegetarianism, People, Trying

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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