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Daughter of No Worlds (The War of Lost Hearts, #1) by Carissa Broadbent

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“Men want power because it makes them feel good. Women want power because it lets us do things.

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“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation

tags: animal-rights, moral, vegetarian

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“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
― Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, vegetarianism

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“May all that have life be delivered from suffering”
― Buddha

tags: animals, kindness, life

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“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.”
― Chief Seattle, Chief Seattle's Speech (1854)

tags: america, genocide, land, memory, mournful, native-americans, people, poignant, sadness

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“The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

tags: aliens, earth, humanity, outer-space, universe

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