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"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."
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"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."

"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

"I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front."

"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."

"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."

"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."

"It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band."

"For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me."
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"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."

"Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved."

"The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown."

"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."

"All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them."

"Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them."

"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."

"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."

"The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star."
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