"It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties."

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Source : Eliza Acton (1860). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.11

Eliza Acton

#Book Quotes #Needs Quotes #Half Quotes

“In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.”
“I hear the criticism loud & clear That is how I know that the time is near”
“I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the â€˜golden ageâ€™ of real estate.”
“Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.”
“My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.”
“I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.”
“...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind...”

Source : George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons
“We are seeing reports that NATO's sending early warning radar planes and German military personnel to Turkey. That might reduce the chances of another incident like this jet shoot down. And obviously both NATO and the U.S. are pressing their ally Turkey to urgently deescalate the situation.”

Source : "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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