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• The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Trying, Bags

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• The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Phrases, Fancy, Next

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• I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

  Kristian Bush

  Thinking, Would Be, Baked Beans

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• You might be a redneck if you consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Gourmet, Pork

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• There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

  John Ralston Saul

  Silly, Men, Civilization

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

  Al Yankovic

  Magic

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• The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Hate, Ignorance

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• When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family.

  Alicia Sixtos

  Thinking, Tamales, Jalapenos

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

  John Lennon

  Friendship, Jeans, Teens

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• There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

  Calvin Trillin

  Eight, Years, Meals

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Discovery, Essentials, Needs

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).

  Charles Heiser

  Flower, Vegetables, Squash

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• Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

  Richard Simmons

  Drinking, Tea, Special

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• And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans.

  Rich Mullins

  Jesus, Mean, Thinking

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• Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

  E. B. White

  Garden, Vegetables, Revolution

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• A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Wall

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

  Wentworth Miller

  Humility, Boys, People

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• Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Clever, Fate

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.207, Macmillan

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• The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and I could mention, too, the market stalls of mushrooms and garlic bugs all engorged. Or I even think of the orchard next door, where the berries are done and the apples are beginning to swell. And once, with our first backyard,I remember I planted an acre of yellow beans we couldn't eat.

  Anne Sexton

  Summer, Thinking, Doors

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• Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind - none of this effete French muck - and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.

  Bryan Talbot

  Strong, Boys, Mushrooms

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• The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.

  Andrea Illy

  Espresso, Magic, Made

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• Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.

  William Henry Irwin

  Spring, Adventure, Journey

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• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  Nadia Giosia

  Giving, Dieting, Dinner

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• Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians… Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.

  Spencer Antle

  Strong, Dirty, Cities

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• Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

  Michelle Malkin

  White, Race, Government

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