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"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
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"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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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
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"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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"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."
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"The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God."
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"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
Rights
"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
Depression
"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
Competition
"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets."
Quality
"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
Food
"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them."
Attention
"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
Management
"The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle."
Influence
"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."
Office
"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."
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