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In times of war prices of the necessaries of life are generally very much increased, but the prices of labor of the poor do not usually rise.
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THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.
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nunna daul Tsuny in the Cherokee language,
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Modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.
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The longer wars last, the less popular they become.
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A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.
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At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.
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All Quiet on the Western Front,
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In eighteenth-century England, anchovy sauce became known as ketchup, katchup, or catsup.
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It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.
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Cherokee faction of fewer than 500 people in a nation of 17,000 who were agreeable to removal.
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ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other.
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A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
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In 1411, the French Crown granted a patent declaring that only the cheese of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon could be called Roquefort cheese.
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softness overcomes hardness.
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In fact, the first experiments in refrigeration were not with fish or meat but with everyone's favorite luxury - butter.
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Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.
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Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest
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If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war.
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New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.
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General Motors, ITT, and Ford come most readily to mind as having plants protected by Hitler,
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It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
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It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name - corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals.
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Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese' (Charles de Gaulle, 1961 speech)
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When a peasant has a baby girl, the family puts up a vegetable every year and gives the jars to her when she's married. This
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One result of the tea boycott was that Americans very quickly became coffee drinkers.
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Take the tail of the female tuna - and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.
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Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border.
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It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.
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Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
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In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
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Fate likes to tease paranoids.'
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The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,
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The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float ... are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
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And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon.
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Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou
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the Poor Men of Lyons,
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If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.
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The name potash is derived from the process used for making potassium carbonate, cooking down water and wood ash in earthen pots.
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When my enemies seek my life, how can I do other than use my endeavor to destroy them in my own defense? The
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The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.
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Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.
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