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Marvin Harris

"I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion."

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Donna Grant

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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Donna Grant

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

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Donna Grant

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

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Donna Grant

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."

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Donna Grant

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

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Donna Grant

"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."

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Donna Grant

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

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Donna Grant

"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

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Donna Grant

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

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Donna Grant

"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."

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Marvin Harris
"However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings."

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Marvin Harris
"Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour."

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Marvin Harris
"I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion."

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Marvin Harris
"I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk."

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Marvin Harris
"Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect."

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Marvin Harris
"Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy."

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Marvin Harris
"Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food."

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Marvin Harris
"If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions."

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Marvin Harris
"Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities."

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Marvin Harris
"The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world."

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