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Letter "F" » food supply
«Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.»
Author: Adam Smith
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Keywords:
conveniences,
delicacies,
delicacy,
employed,
food supply,
improvement,
liking,
lodges,
lodging,
lodgings,
necessities,
niceties,
nicety,
procured,
procures,
procuring,
supply,
tastes
«Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.»
«Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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Keywords:
decorate,
decorated,
decorating,
developing,
developing countries,
escort,
escorted,
escorting,
escorts,
food supply,
for example,
for that matter,
import,
imported,
imports,
Interior,
in relation to,
local,
of import,
relation to,
scheme,
supply
«Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him»
Author: Helen Rowland
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About:
Food,
Men and Women
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Keywords:
Adam,
Adam the,
apple,
consequences,
disagrees,
Eve,
food supply,
offering,
punishment,
supply,
supply a,
The Apple
«The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better America.»
«MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
fertilize,
fertilized,
fertilizing,
food supply,
Israelites,
miraculously,
occupant,
occupants,
settle down,
tilled
«One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
farmer,
food supply,
furnishes,
lumbering,
lumbers,
plow,
raw material,
raw materials,
religiously,
supplying,
vegetable
«The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man»