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• If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Powerful, Insecure

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, I B Tauris & Company Limited

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• Dave Wann's recipes from his own experience in Simple Prosperity are a breath of fresh air, and just what we need for a saner future. They include ideas, sound research and down-to-earth advice we can all use. This book is also much more: a friendly, personal guidebook for living a more enjoyable, healthy, loving life.

  Hazel Henderson

  Book, Simple, Loving Life

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• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

  Florence King

  Women, Home, Unique

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

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• No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.

  Alasdair Gray

  War, Men, Pie

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• I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Successful, Thinking

  "The Zen of Jeff Bezos" by Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. January 01, 2005.

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• He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Food, Book

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• If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

  Paul Bocuse

  Mistake, Doctors, Ivy

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• Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

  Jonah Berger

  People, Magic, Growth

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• If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Motivation, Writing, Two

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• I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

  Sally Schneider

  Writing, Kitchen, Technique

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• There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

  Michael Sandel

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Suicide, Country, Survival

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• The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  Rhode Island, Islands, Innovation

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• A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Labor Day, Secret

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

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• The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

  Leon Gambetta

  Success, Recipe For Success

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• I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Turkeys, Myrtle

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating.

  Julie Davis

  Work, Passion, Keys

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• Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

  Lucian Freud

  Ducks, Skins, Sides

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• Hump it, bump it, whack it! It might be a recipe for a good sex life but it won't win the World Cup.

  Ken Bates

  Sex, Winning, Might

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• In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Men, Generations, Well Known

  Quoted in Jean Renoir, Renoir My Father (1958)

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• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

  Jacques Pepin

  Book, Past, Years

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• But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.

  Eva Herzigova

  Keys, Cake, Eggs

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• I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Hate, Thinking, Italian

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• . . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

  Kathy Lette

  Guarantees, Planning, Brilliant

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• It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

  David Brooks

  Egypt, Transition, Ingredients

  "Defending the Coup". www.nytimes.com. July 4, 2013.

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