"Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it-is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies."

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Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Margaret Visser

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“I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared to accept whatever the outcome of the intra-Syrian dialogue and the decision of the Syrian people is. But people are trying to decide and determine the outcome of the negotiation before even we agree to start the negotiations.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.
“It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.”
“We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.”
“Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.”
“I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.”
“Folklore is always changing and evolving for new audiences.”
“Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.”

Source : John William Draper (1863). “A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe”, p.13, New York, Harper

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