"Be respectful of words. They mean something."

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Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.274, Atlantic Monthly Press

Katherine Anne Porter

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“I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.”
“...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.”

Source : John Gardner, Allan Richard Chavkin (1990). “Conversations with John Gardner”, p.168, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.”

Source : Karl Landsteiner (2013). “The Specificity of Serological Reactions”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.”
“You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.”
“Encouraging children to live healthy lifestyles is something I take very seriously.”
“I am unable to rule anything out.”

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