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"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

"It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food."

"I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply."

"I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country."

"Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!"
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"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."


"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."


"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."


"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."


"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."


"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."


"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
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