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Walter Benjamin : Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received. # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Jay Kordich : " Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Count Leo Tolstoy : " A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Hunter S Thompson : " Breakfast is the only meal of the day that I tend to view with the same kind of traditionalized reverence that most people associate with Lunch and Dinner. I like to eat breakfast alone, and almost never before noon; anybody with a terminally jangled lifestyle needs at least one psychic anchor every twenty-four hours, and mine is breakfast. In Hong Kong, Dallas or at home — and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chiles, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert…. Right, and there should also be two or three newspapers, all mail and messages, a telephone, a notebook for planning the next twenty-four hours and at least one source of good music…. All of which should be dealt with outside, in the warmth of a hot sun, and preferably stone naked. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Arundhati Roy : " The tradition of "turkey pardoning" in the US is a wonderful allegory for new racism. Every year, the National Turkey Federation presents the US president with a turkey for Thanksgiving. Every year, in a show of ceremonial magnanimity, the president spares that particular bird (and eats another one). After receiving the presidential pardon, the Chosen One is sent to Frying Pan Park in Virginia to live out its natural life. The rest of the 50 million turkeys raised for Thanksgiving are slaughtered and eaten on Thanksgiving Day. ConAgra Foods, the company that has won the Presidential Turkey contract, says it trains the lucky birds to be sociable, to interact with dignitaries, school children and the press. That's how new racism in the corporate era works. A few carefully bred turkeys - the local elites of various countries, a community of wealthy immigrants, investment bankers, the occasional Colin Powell, or Condoleezza Rice, some singers, some writers (like myself) - are given absolution and a pass to Frying Pan Park. The remaining millions lose their jobs, are evicted from their homes, have their water and electricity connections cut, and die of AIDS. Basically, they're for the pot. But the fortunate fowls in Frying Pan Park are doing fine. Some of them even work for the IMF and the World Trade Organisation - so who can accuse those organisations of being anti-turkey? Some serve as board members on the Turkey Choosing Committee - so who can say that turkeys are against Thanksgiving? They participate in it! Who can say the poor are anti-corporate globalisation? There's a stampede to get into Frying Pan Park. So what if most perish on the way? " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Robert Orben : " Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Peace Pilgrim : " I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Mark Twain : " Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Thomas Jefferson : " If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Barbara Ehrenreich : " Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Fran Lebowitz : " Food is an important part of a balanced diet. " # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Walter Benjamin: " The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope." # Relationships # Love # Hope

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Walter Benjamin: " Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom." # Advice # Wisdom # Fiction

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Walter Benjamin: " Books and harlots have their quarrels in public." # Debate # Books - Reading # Quarrels

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Walter Benjamin: " The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble." # Destructiveness # Character # Suicide

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Walter Benjamin: " He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest." # Etiquette # Fashion # Dress

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Walter Benjamin: " Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn." # Experience # Beauty # Friends and Friendship

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Walter Benjamin: " The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions." # Facts # Power # Life and Living

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Walter Benjamin: " Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received." # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Walter Benjamin: " Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." # Giving # Freedom # Power

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Walter Benjamin: " We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations." # Life and Living # Enemies # Critics and Criticism

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