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• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  Gail Simmons

  Mother, Vegetables, Law

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• Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

  James Surowiecki

  Doors, Tough Times, Cases

  "The Track-Star Economy". www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

  Morton Feldman

  Memories, Taste, Married

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.

  Marlo Thomas

  Sweet, Children, Simple

  "Seasonal Ingredients: 12 Fresh and Healthy Recipes for Fall" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, People, Office

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

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• I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Prayer, Maps

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• Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Beautiful, Strong, Coffee

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.180, New Directions Publishing

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• While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Clothes, Bird

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

  Julia Child

  Technique, Looks

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• Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Neurosis, Bears

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• Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

  Zane Grey

  Hate, Grief, Fighting

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• We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use to pass on a favorite lasagna recipe. And I was responding with the same enthusiasm a new cook might show. I was simultaneously horrified and impressed with myself.

  Janet Evanovich

  Might Use, Enthusiasm, Tone

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• I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

  Deb Caletti

  Guitar, Eggs, Oil

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Historical, Technique, Ingredients

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• No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!

  Buddy Valastro

  Attitude, Kitchen, Bakers

  "Erica Rivera Interviews The Cake Boss". Interview with Erica Rivera, www.ericarivera.net. November 9, 2011.

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• Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

  Julia Child

  Knives, Ideas, Fearless

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• The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.

  Ernst Junger

  Artist, Safety, Political

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• The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

  Carl Jung

  Shoes, Decision, Suits

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader effort to lead the world, including themselves, toward nuclear disarmament. Preventing further proliferation is essential, but it is not a recipe for success to preach to the rest of the world to stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable to their own security.

  Hans Blix

  Military, Iran, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

  William George Jordan

  Block, Angel, Self Confidence

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.21, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.

  Corita Kent

  Offering, Special, Together

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.326, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

  Sally Schneider

  Fun, Way, Sticks

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• My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

  Caroline Knapp

  Friday, Dog, New York

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• It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

  Michael Kinsley

  Equality, Would Be, Way

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• Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta.

  Bob Harper

  Kale, Vegetables, Trying

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