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“Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.”

Humans May Doe Ideas Order Animal Produce Creatures Conscious Accounts Praise Tables Leaving Valuable Eggs Chickens Breakfast Complication Elementals Praise God

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.”

Ifs Needs Science Bits Half Produce Arms Months Destruction Skins Sight Tables Heal Bottles Smallest Blisters

Author:William Crookes

“Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.”

Source: I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine

“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.”

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.”

Giving May Money Produce Protect Capitalism Tables Workers Golden Eggs Geese Living Wage Golden Eggs

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.”

Whole Artist Suffering Company Records Produce Paid Tables Video Stakes New Artists

Author:Pharoahe Monch

“The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.”

People Bigs America Greatness Produce Genius Tables Supposed To Be Injury Meant To Be Armstrong Greatness Of America

Author:Garrison Keillor

“If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil, but conformists fulfilling orders. I think the same can be said about the Bible.”

Ifs Thinking Said Christian Order Evil Left Christ Moral Produce Ethics Tables Good And Evil Fulfilling Conformist Christian Ethics

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.”

Values Produce Politician Tables Definitions Bread Jealous Inability Limbs Inferiority Menace Vengeful Insolent

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007