"One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place ..."

Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Margaret Visser

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“I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.”
“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.”

Source : Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin
“Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.”
“God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.”
“Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.”
“I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.”
“We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.”
“Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.”

Source : Mike DeWine at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Hearing on The Nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of The Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2005.

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