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• A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

  Michael Pollan

  Beef, Research, Growing

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Names, People

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• Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.

  Thomas Malthus

  Fall, Population, Demand

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• The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

  David Ricardo

  Lasts, Difficulty, Portions

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.490

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• Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

  Etty Hillesum

  Rain, Fall, Acceptance

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.483, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Enemy, Tools

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.131

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• a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.

  Julia Peterkin

  Dust, Lucky, Cotton

  Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.259, University of Georgia Press

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• Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Flower, Amusement, Serious

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
  Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Tag, Busy

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• I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

  Dean Karnazes

  Vegetables, Nuts, Corn Syrup

  "Dean Karnazes Makes Marathoners Look Lazy" By Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

  Lucretius

  Mother, Sea, Names

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• Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

  Michael Pollan

  Hero, Believe, Acting

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

  Mark Twain

  Feeding

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• What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! Here the Swede would find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of Scane rich in corn, and the valleys of Norrland; here the Norwegian would find his rapid rivers ... The climate, the situation, the character of the scenery agrees with our people better than that of any other American States.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Character, Lakes, Rivers

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• If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

  J. G. Holland

  People, Firsts, Judgment

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.

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• Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

  Mitt Romney

  Creativity, Research And Development, Eating

  "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Months, September, Rich

  'Barbara Frietchie' l. 1

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• Some people look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why?' I look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why not?'

  Brian Regan

  People, Looks, Why Not

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• Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Mind, Beans

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, www.dissentmagazine.org. Spring 2012.

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• A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

  H. L. Mencken

  Doctors, Political, Tin

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• A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poetry, Age, Honey

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy.

  John Ruskin

  Happiness, Real, Thinking

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• Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Hydrogen Bomb, Meat, Bombs

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• We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

  Antisthenes

  Weed, War, Men

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• Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.

  Garrison Keillor

  God, Night, Lakes

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.18, Penguin

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