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My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love." [Stacey] "Intimate? Sharing food? People you love?" Amber raises an eyebrow. "Um, no offense, Stace, but it sounds like Gram was into food kink. ↗

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

#silver-is-for-secrets #food

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#politics #tradition #values #western-civilization #food

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed. ↗

— Ron Kind

#does #economics #everyone #game #involved

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#exams #far #much #obama #places

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey? ↗

— Larry King

#arthur #broadcaster #crazy #everyone #godfrey

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well. ↗

— Michael King

#been #being #common #common sense #confronted

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British. ↗

— Michael King

#britain #british #child #coherence #commonwealth

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#ecology #exploitation #philosophy #food

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. ↗

— Stephen King

#i #i think #into #life #places

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens. ↗

— Steve King

#benefits #citizens #duty #guarantee #nation