"In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'."

Food, Music, Books, Neighbors

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"In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'."

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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

Food, Gold, Song, World

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Food, Humor, Truth, Life, Economy

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

George Orwell, British Author

Food, Machine, May

"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

Food, Key

"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

Food,

"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

Food, Conversation, Wit

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

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Food, Humor, Irony, Reality

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"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom."

Communism, Freedom

"The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them."

People, Party, Will

"The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me."

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"Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new."

Life, Challenge, Magic, Man

"The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself."

Growth, Population, States, United

"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens."

Purpose, Committee, Majority

"My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met."

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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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"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."

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"Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness."

"The power to investigate is a great public trust."

"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."

"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom."

"The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them."

"The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me."

"Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new."

"The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself."

"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens."

"My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met."