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• My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

  Sue Grafton

  Knives, Jars, Mayonnaise

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

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• [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

  Zell Miller

  Cutting, Government, Reform

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• The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

  Epicurus

  Drinking, Sea, Dancing

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• When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

  "The man who put teenagers' lives online". Interview with Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2006.

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• I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Party, Kids, Childhood

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• Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Hot, Bread, Biscuits

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

  Chauncey Depew

  Gentleman, Breakfast, Enough

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• Why shouldn't you think it's crazy to believe in a green deer? All your life you have been taught to believe in only what you can use-to set on the table, to put in the bank, to build a house with. What possible use would a green deer be to anyone? Who would believe in a man with a blazing bush in his cart? Then let me tell you that it is beliefs just such as these that are the only hope of the world. Let me tell you that until men are ready to believe in the green deer and the strange carter, we shall not lift our noses above the bloody mess we have made of our living.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Crazy, Believe, Men

  "All At Once Is What Eternity Is: Musings On Kenneth Patchen" by Carolyn Zaikowski, therumpus.net. December 2, 2011.

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• Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.

  Zainab Salbi

  Order, Issues, Decision

  "'War is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, www.truth-out.org. June 7, 2011.

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• When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nice compositional elements about how it all sits on the table.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Nice, Elements, Sides

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.

  Judy Woodruff

  Phones, Two, Lunch

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Wish, Dinner

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• This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Kingdoms, Rooms, Rich

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.148, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

  Jesse Helms

  Race, Two, Differences

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• I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Basketball, Soccer, Kids

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• A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out. Everyone rushed after it, shouting "Stop! Stop! Why did you do that?" "Becuase I am a panda," said the panda. "That's what pandas do. If you don't believe me, look in the dictionary." So they looked in the dictionary and sure enough they found Panda: Racoon-like animal of Asia. Eats shoots and leaves.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Believe, Men, Animal

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• What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.

  Karl Barry Sharpless

  Children, Ocean, Periodic Table

  Nobel lecture, 2001.

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• What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Gentleman, Eras, Table Manners

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• Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

  Richard Lamm

  Fall, Ice, Water

  "Do We Really Know How Much It Costs to Shoe a Horse?" by Gov. Dick Lamm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Lying, Stories

  Charles R. Swindoll (2011). “Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

  Larry McMurtry

  Past, Media, People

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

  Larry McMurtry

  Children, Sibling, Night

  Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”

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• Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Men, Gambling

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• There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath.

  Nate Berkus

  Moving, Home, Thinking

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• Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

  Danny Fox

  Writing, Hands, Want

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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