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• They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from… — Aristotle
• Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet,… — Bill Bryson
• The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. — Bill Bryson
• When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do… — Dwight L. Moody
• The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products… — David F. Houston
• He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn,… — Judy Grahn
• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude… — Paul Fussell
• A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate… — Philemon

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