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"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
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"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
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"Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery."
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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."
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"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
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"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."
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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
Food

"Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: It behooved our hunter gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine."
Evolution

"Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again."
Nature

"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
Anxiety

"Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward."
Imagination

"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."
Environment

"I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification."
Change

"Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist."
Life

"Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share."
Behavior

"Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically."
Nature
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