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"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."
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"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
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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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"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'."
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"I love shopping, especially food shopping."
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"My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years."
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"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
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"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food."
Food


"One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings."
Religion


"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."
Politics


"That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food."
Food


"If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak."
Hell


"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."
Being


"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."
Age


"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."
Family


"Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery."
Reflection


"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."
Politics
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