"What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you."

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Source : Alexis Soyer (1855). “A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy”, p.155

Alexis Soyer

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“It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel.”
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“I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.”
“You canâ€™t have a bully without a victim.”
“I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.”

Source : "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.
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Source : "Carrie-Anne Moss Is the One" by David Hochman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”

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