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• Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done

  Garrison Keillor

  Giving, Heaven, Needs

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• I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Teeth, May, Bread

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• Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a surplus? Have the government legislate a minimum price that is above the price that would otherwise prevail. That is what we have done at one time or another to produce surpluses of wheat, of sugar, of butter, of many other commodities. Do you want a shortage? Have the government legislate a maximum price that is below the price that would otherwise prevail.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, May, Want

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.

  Kathy Freston

  Home, Tuna Fish, Six Months

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• Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

  Joanna Southcott

  Father, Anger, Night

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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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• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

  Paul Fussell

  July, Air, Iron

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

  Fred Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Kindness, Writing, Dying

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• Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Goal, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.330, Delphi Classics

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• I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Cereal, Breakfast, Boxes

  Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

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• The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

  David F. Houston

  Important, Ease, May

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• What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

  David F. Houston

  Mean, Loss, Men

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• If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Death, Men, Body

  William Jennings Bryan's eulogy at Elks Lodge annual memorial service in Lincoln, Nebraska (December 2, 1906), as reported by the Nebraska State Journal (p. 3), December 3, 1906.

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• If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Cutting, Exercise, Maturity

  "The Happiest Man in the World". "Speaking of Faith" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 12, 2009.

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• I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Morning, Father

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• I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Catholic, Teeth, May

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• During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Past, Years

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

  David Ricardo

  Bakers, Fixed, Farmers

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.21

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• Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

  Garth Nix

  Moon, Light, Tree

  Garth Nix (2009). “Abhorsen”, p.509, Zondervan

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• Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 114

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• The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Faith, Covering, Peers

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• Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher-they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table.

  Jerry Adler

  Science, Eggs, Water

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• The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Bread, Firsts

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Perfection

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