"Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building."

-- Carlo Petrini

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“If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on.”
“You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.”
“Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.”
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
“It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.”
“There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.”

Source : Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”
“If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”
“I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that.”

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