"Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture."

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Mark Kurlansky

#Culture Quotes #Significant Quotes #Trademarks Quotes

“I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.”
“A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.”
“Trav, if you cross us -- " "I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror.”
“I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.”
“The second and third generation effect of immigration accounts for only a small portion of the height shortfall between Americans and northern Europeans. Besides the slowdown in American heights began in the 1950s, well before large-scale immigration into the country.”
“The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, 1930.
“I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.”

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

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