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• Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, World, Prejudice

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Wherever I sit is the head of the table.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work

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• Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.

  Sue Gardner

  Benefits, Information, Crumbs

  "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List" by Noam Cohenjan, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2011.

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• Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Women, Matter, Speak

  Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

  Ronald Reagan

  Change, America, Presidential

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I'm coming to believe it's in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.

  Shauna Niequist

  Running, Real, Life Changing

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• How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you

  Megan Alexander

  Prayer, Excellent, Be You

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• Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

  Pope Francis

  Being Alone, Basics, Loneliness And Solitude

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.

  Langdon Winner

  Restaurants

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• My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.

  Alicia Markova

  Furniture, Dressings

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• Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Food, Jewels, Cooking

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• I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

  Huey Lewis

  Thinking, Enough, I Can

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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• Words and works eat not at one table.

  James Howell

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”

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• My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your soul sits at a large, circular conference table and chooses the souls who are going to be a part of your life. As for which particular people would be chosen, I figured they would be individuals from previous lives with whom there was still unfinished business.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Journey, Unfinished Business, People

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beer, Glasses, People

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Food, Loss

  Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

  Michael J. Fox

  Player, Night, People

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• Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

  Beatrix Potter

  Cat, Sunday, Two

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• I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

  Party, Joy, Drink

  William Shakespeare (1912). “Every Day with Shakespeare”

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

  Iggy Azalea

  Fashion, Luxury, Bed

  "Ten Questions: Iggy Azalea". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Do all your eating at a table.

  Michael Pollan

  Eating

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.125, Penguin

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• People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

  Michael S. Smith

  People, Personality, Helping

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