"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists."

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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."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Food, Time, Sex, People

"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."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Food, Science, Isolation, Solution

"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."

Helen Rowland, American Writer

Food, Consequences, Man, Punishment

"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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Food, Being, Chance, Company

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Food, Dying, Want

"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."

Jennifer Jason Leigh, American Actress

Food, Talk

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

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Agriculture, Company, Now

"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."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Fossilfuel, Pollution, Zone

"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."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Writing

"The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God."

Thomas R. Kelly, American Celebrity

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"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."

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"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

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"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."

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"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking."

Soul, Ambition, Sea

"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent."

Love, Men, Fear, Virtue

"So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God."

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"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists."

"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."

"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."

"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."

"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking."

"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent."

"So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born."