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“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.”

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Book:A Dangerous Age: A Novel

Source: A Dangerous Age: A Novel

“Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.”

World Might Humanity Eating Storytelling Good Storytelling Connectors

Author:James Genn

“I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a booger it's not necessarily about that. It's about something more. It's about inviting a little bit of absurdity into the process and humanity into the process. Making sure that no matter who we are and what sort of pedestal or glamorous lighting we're under, we're all eating boogers man.”

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Author:David Gordon Green

“Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions.”

Able Spiritual Humanity Asks Moral Broken Eating Mass Distance Cancer Consumption Bleeding Overconsumption

Author:Richard J. Foster

“We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.”

Enough Humanity Alive Ocean Eating Population Fishes Expanding

Author:Paul Watson

“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.”

Humanity Sun Eating Petroleum

Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World