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• The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don’t have a choice but to go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Choices

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• It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aprodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent

  Pittacus Lore

  Real, Parent, Apollo

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• There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

  Carl Sagan

  Stupid, Differences, People

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.

  Brené Brown

  Deals, Ads, Sells

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• When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Jobs, Done

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

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• Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

  Wes Moore

  Mean, Thinking, Two

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• Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Thinking, Play

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.365, Vintage

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• I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Wind, Long

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601

  Richelle Mead

  Usual, Dresses, Stories

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• We’re products of our choices.

  Susane Colasanti

  Choices, Our Choices

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.103, Penguin

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• If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

  Niall Ferguson

  Emotional, Swings, Roots

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• No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

  Colin Powell

  Life Changing, Curves, Interaction With Others

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• She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained. "Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together. "It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect.

  Ally Carter

  Kissing, Doctors, Together

  Ally Carter (2011). “Gallagher Girls: Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Men, Mind, Consciousness

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• The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I’d be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.

  Don Winslow

  Marijuana, California, Orange

  "The Power of the Dog". Book by Don Winslow, 2005.

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• Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Faith, Fighting, Christian Inspirational

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• Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

  Carl Sagan

  Cutting, Two, Evil

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• This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Communication, Media

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Personality, Perception

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Business, Eye

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• The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.

  Sara Shepard

  Hair, Perfume, Booze

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• War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, War, Amity

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Also, I didn’t trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.

  Richelle Mead

  Guy, Used, Sydney Sage

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.21, Penguin

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• Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

  Max Brooks

  People, Tvs, World War Z

  "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War". Book by Max Brooks, 2007.

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• Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

  Marquis de Sade

  Imagination, Feelings, Way

  marquis de Sade (1965). “Eugénie de Franval”

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