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— Jonathan Safran Foer"Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it."
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Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.
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