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"The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them."
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"Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?"
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"God is aware of the hypocrisy in the hearts of men."
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"Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved."
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"Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."
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"In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive."
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"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."
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"Everyone on earth is afraid of losing his/her life, and only a few are afraid of losing their time."
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"Many people in the world have a talent from God, but they do not know him."
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"The desire to get money through jobs enslaves us."
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"If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are."
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"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
Nature
"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."
Food
"You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned."
Science
"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."
Writing
"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms."
Leadership
"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
Food
"As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food."
Society
"But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking."
Society
"The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world."
Environment
"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."
Food
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