That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.
Shake the hand that feeds you.
One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean, we subsidize high fructose corn syrup. We subsidize hydrogenated corn oil. We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize four crops that are the building blocks of fast food. And you also have to work on access. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health.
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.
Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.
Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
. . . aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.