"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."

-- Marian Burros

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“I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.”
“The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.”
“Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.”
“[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.”
“My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.”
“I believe there's a diseased component inside the Islamic world, the Muslim world, absolutely. It's like a cancer and it has metastasized and grabbed hold in a much bigger way, and it's because we, have tried to be, globally, tried to be so political correct.”
“A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things arenâ€™t going well, tell them.”
“I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].”

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