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• The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

  Randall Jarrell

  Dirty, Past, Voice

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.

  John Templeton

  Smile, Live Life, Water

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.18, Templeton Foundation Press

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• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  Danica McKellar

  White, Healthy, Sugar

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• The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Thinking, Tchaikovsky, Water

  "Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?". The Atlantic Monthly, April 1955.

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• There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Home, Air, Smell

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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• A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Corn, Fool, Farming

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• Any food products made from flour, especially whole-wheat flour, form gas when broken down in the large intestine. Beware of eating these types of food before bedtime to avoid feeling inflated in the morning.

  Mehmet Oz

  Morning, Broken, Feelings

  Source: www.today.com

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• Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

  Brigham Young

  Survival, Scarcity, Preparedness

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• You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

  Ben Affleck

  Patterns, Chickens, Fried Chicken

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.

  Danica McKellar

  Baby, White, Body

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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• The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Servant Of God, Religion

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• Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
  Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
  That neither by hir wordes ne hir face
  Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence,
  Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Patience, Space, Faces

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1874). “The Prioresses Tale: Sire Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, the Squieres Tale, from the Canterbury Tales”, p.90

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• If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Eels, Ifs

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Order, Eels

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled about the brown edges and threw it, unbaked, against a barn door, where it stuck for days.

  James Smith

  War, Doors, Cake

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• Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. If hip-hop was a cake, all I can tell you is the eggs, the flour, the sugar, the vanilla - the ingredient years.

  Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

  Years, Cake, Eggs

  "Grandmaster Flash breaks down Netflix’s new series 'The Get Down'". Interview with Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. July 2016.

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• We don't consider a trip to Boston complete if it doesn't include a visit to Flour Bakery for a BLT and a couple of cookies. With Flour, Too we can live vicariously and be there whenever we want.

  Amanda Hesser

  Couple, Boston, Cookies

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• Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Fire, Clothes

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• There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Wine, Learning, Four

  Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

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• I was so bad with the food and alcohol in Nashville. If you saw me naked compared to what I looked like when I did Iron Man 2, when I was exercising every day - I'll get it back together, but I've never eaten so much fried food and white flour in my life, ever.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Exercise, Men, Nashville

  Interview in Harper's Bazaar, April 9, 2010.

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• Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Water

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• Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Journey, Air

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• To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.

  Newton D. Baker

  Military, Airplane, Bridges

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• Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Brother, Children, Mean

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

  Suzanne Collins

  People, Bags, Arena

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

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