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- Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
- Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
- To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite…
- Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we…
- Do all your eating at a table.
- 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…
- When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
- While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of…
- Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens…
- When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of…
- The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or…
- Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of…
- we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to…
- The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a…
- The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and all creatures; so…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle