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Paul Theroux

"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."

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"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."

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"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences."

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"The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years."

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"If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex."

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"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."

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"The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating."

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"We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food."

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"The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops."

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