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• Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Soul, Vices, Flavor

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.106, Faber & Faber

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• ...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Soul, Liberty

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.

  Tom Hayden

  Dog, Believe, Fighting

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• In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dog, Horse, Cat

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• Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Kids, Eggs, French Toast

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• Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

  Steve Albini

  Cooking, Technique, Use

  "Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview". Interview with Andrew Simmons, www.laweekly.com. May 17, 2011.

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• The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Dining, Poodles

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• Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

  Elizabeth David

  Organization, Long, Kitchen

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• It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life.

  Nicole Richie

  Healthy, Needs, Answers

  UK Marie Claire Interview, 2008.

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• I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Walking Away, Ice

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• Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Next Week, Gauges, Littles

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• All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.

  Ramakrishna

  Morning, Real, Self

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Sri Ramakrishna, translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, p. 818, 1942.

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• I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Judging, Cooks

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• Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

  Coolio

  Growing Up, Food, Cooking

  Coolio (2009). “Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

  Joe Bastianich

  Home, Bags, Tomatoes

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• The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Stories, Way

  "Joe Bastianich reveals restaurants' dark secrets, talks lawsuit" by Vidya Rao and Vidya Rao, www.today.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

  Lisa See

  Boys, Garden, Praying Mantis

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• Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Encouragement, Doe, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life itself is your proper meal.

  Marc David

  FaceBook post by Marc David from Mar 10, 2015

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• It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Eye, Heart, Blood

  Rudyard Kipling, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.43, GENERAL PRESS

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• America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal.

  Nancy Johnson

  Wine, Beer, America

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• Much like the fortified wine that gives Marsala its name, this tasteful hue embodies the satisfying richness of a fulfilling meal, while its grounding red-brown roots emanate a sophisticated, natural earthiness. This hearty, yet stylish tone is universally appealing and translates easily to fashion, beauty, industrial design, home furnishings and interiors.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Fashion, Home, Wine

  "A Dress of a Different Color". Interview with Maureen Seaberg, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I always advise eating regular meals — a mix of healthy carbs, protein and fruits and veggies.

  Gunnar Peterson

  Healthy, Fruits And Veggies, Eating

  "Scary Celeb Diet Tricks No Woman Should Try!" by Shaun Dreisbach, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

  Ryan Gosling

  Moving, Rocks, Drug

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Gratitude, Sky, Cake

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