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We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

#buying #consequences #consumer #doing #family

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should. ↗

— Peter Singer

#being #chicken #conscious #different #get

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argument #because #believe #believing #despite

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behaviour #cause #change #experience #fish

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.' ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#happens #horses #i #i am #lucky

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#doing #great #great thing #how #i

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#been #economy #i #i think #india

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#awake #because #capture #changed #come

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#begins #believes #compromise #i #i think

All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#bottom #bottom line #football #football game #game