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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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"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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"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."
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"The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month."
Conflict
"As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India."
Job
"You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start."
Man
"Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea."
Age
"The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that."
Travel
"It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president."
Blame
"Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives."
Food
"Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female."
Care
"I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership."
Reading
"All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night."
Philosophy
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