"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food."

Mary Catherine Bateson, American Scientist

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

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

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Food, Passion, Happiness, Desire

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

Woody Allen, American Director

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

Mark Twain, American Author

Food, Sin, Crime, Enjoyment

"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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Food, Being, Chance, Company

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

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"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."

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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."

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"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."

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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

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"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."

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

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

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"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."

"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food."

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."

"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."

"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."

"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."