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“You and I may look at a banana and see a banana. If forced to come up with something more inventive to do with it, perhaps we'd mash it up, or maybe we'd dip it in chocolate, and say 'What a good boy am I.”

Quote by Peter Sagal

Book:The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things

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The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things

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Peter Sagal (born January 31, 1965) is an American playwright, author, and radio host. He is best known as the host of the NPR news quiz show 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'. Born in New York, he graduated from Harvard University and began his career in theater, writing plays such as 'Denial' and 'The Book of Liz'. Sagal has also authored books including 'The Book of Vice' and 'The Incomplete Book of Running'. Known for his wit and cultural insight, he has made significant contributions to both broadcasting and theater. more

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“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and . . . world famine could be totally relieved if we devoted the same resources of lawn culture to food culture in poor areas. These facts are before us. Thus, we can look at lawns, like double garages and large guard dogs, [and Humvees and SUVs] as a badge of willful waste, conspicuous consumption, and lack of care for the earth or its people. Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home. The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands. It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.”

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