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“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.”

“Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.”

Turns Boxes Peanuts Cigar Fours

Book:Out of The Easy

Source: Out of The Easy

“O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?”

Art Soul Facts Turns Poor Secret Teach Fire Stupid Drink Wine Folks Boxes Burden Tongue Coward Bowls

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.”

Turns Conscious Machines Boxes Buying Gears Collectors Vintage Analog

Author:Martin Gore

“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.”

“My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!”

Ifs Happens Mother Certain Turns Danger Blue Boxes Steam Stoves

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.”

Should Song Turns Father Tree Gold Boxes Silver Buried Adulthood Pins Old Song

Author:Mary Butts

“We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntactical units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us.”

Heart Littles Matter Turns Black Lines Perfect Crosses Boxes Plenty Daily Life Units Ants Upside Down Baudelaire

Author:John Granger