"You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for."

Food, Men, Work, Leisure

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"You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for."

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"But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food."

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"A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?"

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"Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real."

Pat Roberts, American Politician

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"I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live."

Paul Prudhomme, American Celebrity

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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."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

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"First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that."

Neil LaBute, American Director

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"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."

Regis Philbin, American Entertainer

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"Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate."

Jack Adams, Canadian Athlete

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"And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens."

Faith

"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."

Religion

"The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution."

Religion

"The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms."

Knowledge

"American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World."

Nation

"Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act."

Act

"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."

Nature

"It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole."

Christian

"The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values."

Age

"No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion."

Civilization