"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy."

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"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."

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"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."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

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"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"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."

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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"

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"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."

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"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

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"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

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"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."

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"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

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"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense."

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