Vegetarian Quotes - Page 27

• Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

  Egon Friedell

  People, Electricity, Force

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• The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.

  Walter Willett

  Strong, Heart, Vegetables

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• There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.

  Walter Willett

  Vegetables, Risk, Fruit

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• Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Disease, Claims

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• To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

  Meher Baba

  Love, Dear Ones, Way

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go in when no one was looking and put out watermelon rinds to feed the flies. There were all these flies that would have starved if I hadn't, and I'm not even wild about flies. They say it makes you a gentler person if you don't eat meat. But wasn't Hitler a vegetarian?

  Susan Strasberg

  Girl, Home, Meat

  Susan Strasberg (1992). “Marilyn and Me-21.95”, Smithmark Publishers

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• Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.

  Dean Ornish

  Heart, Exercise, Vegetarian Diet

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• When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

  Michael Symon

  Years, Wife, Devil

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• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  New York, California, Trying

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• The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement.

  Emily Deschanel

  Real, Challenges, Vitamins

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

  Aisha Tyler

  School, Kids, Clothes

  "Aisha Tyler mixes up relationships on 'Friends'". Interview with Lynn Elber, lubbockonline.com. April 23, 2003.

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• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  Laura Wilkinson

  Years, Long, Four

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• I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken

  Nastassja Kinski

  Sometimes, Chickens, Fishes

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• I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Vegetarianism, Answers, Socialist

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

  Bill Vaughan

  Cannibal

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• Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Vegetarianism, Cake, Healthy

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• I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Strong, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography". Book by Scott Nearing, 1973.

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• I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

  James Nicoll

  Thinking, People, Eating

  Usenet article, 2003.

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• A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

  Ammon Hennacy

  War, Meals, Pacifist

  "Revolution Of The Heart: Essays On the Catholic Worker". Book edited by Patrick G. Coy, 1988.

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• For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Beer, Ale

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Book, People

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• But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

  Radha Mitchell

  Factors

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• The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.

  Bryan Adams

  Animal, Way, Path

  "Bryan Adams on Animal Rights and Being Vegan". Interview with Anne C, www.peta.org.uk. January 07, 2007.

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• The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

  Erma Bombeck

  Wall, Food, Track

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