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“A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.”

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Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”

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Book:10 Books in 1

Source: 10 Books in 1

“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.”

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Book:The Road to Wigan Pier

Source: The Road to Wigan Pier

“Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.”

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Book:With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

“In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.”

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Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.”

“The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.”

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Author:Alex Atala

“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“Pesa ni ya muhimu kwa sababu ya mahitaji ya lazima ya wanadamu kama vile chakula, maji, malazi, elimu, usafi, mavazi, na afya, lakini ni ya maana kwa sababu ya wanawake.”

“The heavenly Father provides food for all flesh.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.”

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Book:Beware of Pity

Source: Beware of Pity

“Look,’ said Tyrena. ‘In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”

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Book:Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”