"A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

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“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”
“If The World Does Not Change Course, We Risk Self-Destruction.”

Source : "Saving Ourselves From Self-Destruction" by Mohamed ElBaradei, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2004.
“I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time, I strongly feel that no work done by a woman in the field of science or culture or whatever, however vigorous or demanding, can enter into conflict with her ancient 'wonderful mission' -- to love, to be loved -- and with her craving for the bliss of motherhood.”
“Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.”
“Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth”
“As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.”
“Man is rotten with perfection.”
“I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.”

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