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• Violence begins with the fork.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Animal Rights, Vegetarian

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• If you find a fork on your way when you are in need of a spoon, take it to give someone who is in need of a fork!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving, Needs, Spoons

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• I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Mother

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• The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

  Joel Salatin

  Chains, Raw Food, Food Chain

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• What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Mistake, Knives

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

  Heber J. Grant

  Yosemite, Valleys, Half

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• Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.

  Marjorie Celona

  Perfect, Letters, Empty

  Teddy Wayne, Marjorie Celona, Jim Gavin, William Nicholson, Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop (2013). “Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

  Margaret Atwood

  Knives, Skills, Teeth

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• To be successful you can't show up to the potluck with just a fork.

  Dave Liniger

  Successful, Potluck, Shows

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• Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Daughter, Eye, Hands

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks, either by positively going for certain kinds of foods or rejecting other kinds of foods, they realize that this is a responsibility and an opportunity to shape the world a little bit by their own choices.

  Michael Pollan

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Issues

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is "like trying to eat soup with a fork. You can get a little taste, but you cannot get nourished.

  William Cameron Townsend

  Heart, Thinking, Understanding

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• What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

  Irene Nemirovsky

  Law, Knives, People

  Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage

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• Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening to find what tone it called forth in the person I was talking to. It was how I tested people. If there was no response, this was not the kind of person I liked. Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life. I was poor, but I was not alone, because I had a friend.

  Sándor Márai

  Beautiful, Talking, Cities

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• Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

  Willie Stargell

  Baseball, Coffee, Trying

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  Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Humble, Adventure, Trying

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• The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Humanity, Earth

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• It's not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for something called same-gender marriage have essentially put that potato on the fork. They're the ones who have created a situation whereby the law of the land, one way or the other, is going to address this issue of marriage. This is not a situation where the Church has elected to take the matter into the legal arena or into the political arena. It's already there.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Land, Issues, Law

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean.

  Ken Wilber

  Ocean, Unity, Trying

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).

  George Johnson

  Science, Thinking, Knives

  George Johnson (2011). “Machinery of the Mind”, p.450, Crown

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• I have a plan.” He groaned. “I was afraid of that.” “My plans are not terrible.” “Isabelle’s plans are terrible.” He pointed a finger at her. “Your plans are suicidal. At best.” She sat back, her arms crossed over her chest. “Do you want to hear it or not? You have to keep it a secret.” “I would pluck out my own eyes with a fork before I would give away your secrets,” Simon said, then looked anxious. “Wait a second. Do you think that’s likely to be required?

  Cassandra Clare

  Suicidal, Eye, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Wrestling, Choices, Decision

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• We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Army, Night

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Crazy, Mean, Tunnels

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• We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

  C. S. Lewis

  Circles, Two, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Great Divorce”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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