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“The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

Years Known Study Limits Hundred Weight Average Tiny Grandmother Eighty Ants Peasants Lifting

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.”

People Ifs Jesus Hours Limits Hundred Twenties Speed Miles Pilots Bumper Sticker Speed Limits

Book:Strip Tease

Source: Strip Tease

“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.”

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

“The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.”

Sides Thousand Shapes Limits Hundred Defined Reverse

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne