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• Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Running, Memories, Doors

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• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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

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• Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Water, Unseen, Doe

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• You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Way, Taste

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. [Eric] Bristow is only 27.

  Sid Waddell

  Tears, Eric, World

  "Jordan Spieth rambling his way towards golf's elite clubhouse in record time" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2017.

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• I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Thinking, Firsts

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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• Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

  Paul McCartney

  Laughter, Sadness, Black

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• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Pain, Fall, Heart

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press

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• One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Errors, Sea

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Image and Imagination”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

  Tim Ferriss

  Government, Support, Firsts

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• Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Garden, Air

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 23, 2016

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• The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

  Pope Francis

  Light, World, Earth

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Sea, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1912). “First and Last”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Patricia Young

  Justice For All, People, Water

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• Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

  Aristotle

  Sweet, Wine, Science

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.582, Princeton University Press

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• I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).

  Erik Satie

  Animal, Eggs, White

  "Erik Satie". Book by Rollo H. Myers, New York: Dover, p.135, 1968.

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• The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pillars, Culture, Use

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• The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Golf, Nature Beauty, Architect

  Alister MacKenzie (2015). “Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing

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• There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

  Aristotle

  Sweet, Science, Sea

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.583, Princeton University Press

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• Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Mean, Tunes, Needs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Laughter, Sarcasm, Discrepancies Between

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• A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

  Cotton Mather

  School, Aggravation, Towns

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• later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Discovery, Land, Water

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• Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Wicked, Tears

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

  Henry Miller

  Goal, Doubt, Purpose

  Henry Miller (2007). “Nexus: The Rosy Crucifixion III”, p.129, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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