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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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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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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"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."
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"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
Money
"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
Economy
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
Wisdom
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Art
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
Virtue
"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
Wealth
"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Art
"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
People
"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."
Money
"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."
People
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