"When I was 14, a camp counselor explained what "eating out" was and I vowed to never have it done to me. It seemed cannibalistic and unhygienic. I also remember that she claimed--in front of an entire cabin of girls--to have been "eaten out" by one of the maintenance men in a hot tub. Under hot water. Either something is amiss in my memory of this conversation or she found the most talented man on the planet and all hope is lost for the rest of us."

-- Sloane Crosley

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“Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.”

Source : "National Security Depends on the Nation’s Food Security" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.
“The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.”
“It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.”

Source : Marie Curie, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1963). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.85, Courier Corporation
“Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'”
“Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.”
“I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.”
“I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.”
“We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.”

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