"Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents."

-- Claudia Roden

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Stories Quotes

“And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contractâ€”the Constitutionâ€”made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.”
“In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.”
“You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
“Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.”
“Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.”
“What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.”
“Good SEO work only gets better over time. It's only search engine tricks that need to keep changing when the ranking algorithms change.”
“There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.”

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