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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill…
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Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it…
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Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
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It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of…
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... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble…
— Albert Einstein
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In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...
— Frederic Morton
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Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,…
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage,…
— Wayne D. Dosick
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More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is…
— Sonya Hartnett
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity.…
— Alain Badiou
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