"Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup"

-- Michael Pollan

#Numbers Quotes #Ingredients Quotes #Syrup Quotes

“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.”
“At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is a splendid story of comradeship in a time and place of constant peril, but it's Babbs's irrepressible exuberance and vast, affectionate good humor that make the story go. I love this novel.”
“A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.”
“I can't help thinking if she-the director of a government agency-is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from-how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.”
“Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.”
“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.”
“I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.”
“If Christ is not ALL to you he is NOTHING to you”

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