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softness overcomes hardness.
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Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest
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La no violencia, exactamente igual que la violencia, es una forma de persuadir, una tecnica para el activismo politico, un sistema para prevalecer. La
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The big culprit is methane gas, which, although it does not get as much attention as carbon dioxide, is more than twenty times as destructive in terms of climate change.
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El hinduismo y Gandhi insisten en que la no violencia no debe proceder jamas de la debilidad, sino de la fuerza, y que solo las personas mas fuertes y disciplinadas pueden alcanzarla. Quienes
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Cows are the leading source of hamburger meat in America. Dairy cows are very lean because they put everything into producing milk, so they make good lean ground meat.
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Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou"
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leadership
heritage
perspective
legacy
popularity
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New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.
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novelty
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is significant that the first attempt to build a refrigerator in the United States was undertaken for keeping butter (as opposed to what happened in Australia, where in 1853 James Harrison, a Scot who had moved there, developed the first really fully functional refrigerator and used it for chilling beer).
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The most famous ice cream shop in Italy, and now the oldest continuously operated cafe in the world, was Florian in Piazza San Marco in Venice. It was opened in 1720.
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In fact, the entire breastfeeding issue was an early version of the modern abortion issue, with men trying to make the decisions about what women should do with their bodies.
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If I were ever to make an old-fashioned film noir--with a cynical plot full of intrigue, violence, and sudden twists, filmed on dark and menacing streets in misty black and white--I would shoot it in Havana.
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Scientists estimate that between 1945 and 1958, the power of the nuclear weapons exploded in the world was equal to eight hundred times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. With each explosion, tiny particles that could not be seen, not even with a high-powered microscope, entered the atmosphere and traveled the world. Some of this so-called radioactive fallout dissipated, but some didn't, including strontium-90, which accumulates in bones, esp..
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the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.
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And so you have more opportunities and more responsibilities than any other generation in history.
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Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.
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Fishing has always been at the heart of the culture of nations with coastlines.
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A world without fishing would be sad.
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Pegasus claims that making red-algae paper uses less energy than making paper from wood pulp because there is no need to remove lignin. They also say that ethanol is a by-product of the algae papermaking process. Their paper tastes like--paper. IN
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Modern nutritionists also warn against eating cheese in excess because of its high fat and cholesterol content.
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Literary teas are constantly in a state of flux. The uninitiate gravitates toward the author, the author toward the editor or publisher, the publisher toward the reviewer, and the reviewer, in desperation, toward another drink. Since the general rule of conduct is to seek out those who can do one the most good, magazine editors and big-name reviewers enjoy much popularity.
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salt by definition is a compound created by the neutralization of an acid and a base. Both are extremely unstable--one because it lacks an electron and the other because it has an extra one. So they are, like a good marriage, attracted to each other because they solve each other's problem, complete each other, and result in an extremely stable compound.
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The leading articulator of this rich diet, the last preindustrial British cuisine, was Hannah Glasse, whose books were so popular that Dr. Johnson claimed there was no such person and Hannah Glasse must be the nom de plume of a man. But Hannah did exist, she was a woman, and she cooked with endless quantities of cream and butter.
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epithet of the drunkard's biscuit.
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French butter makes better pastry than American butter because it contains more fat and less water.
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Despite the fame of their bright clothing, Celts are described going naked into battle except for horned helmets. We are told that they had frightening war cries and that the terrifying songs of their ancestors were preludes to violent attacks.
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Kement a zo fall, a gar ar sall"--Everything that is not good asks to be salted. Everything from meat to butter to potatoes was salted. Salt was Brittany's cheapest product, the one everyone could afford. Another Breton proverb was "Aviz hag holen a roer d'an nep a c'houlenn"--Advice and salt are available to anyone who wants it."
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In Welsh tradition, a plate was put on the coffin with bread and salt, and a local professional sin eater arrived to eat the salt.
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The Masai, nomadic cattle herders in East Africa, meet their salt needs by bleeding livestock and drinking the blood. But vegetable diets, rich in potassium, offer little sodium chloride.
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The Masai, nomadic cattle herders in East Africa, meet their salt needs by bleeding livestock and drinking the blood. But vegetable diets, rich in potassium, offer little sodium chloride. Wherever records exist of humans in different stages of development, as in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America, it is generally found that hunter tribes neither made nor traded for salt but agricultural tribes did. On every continent, once hu..
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Our galaxy is called the Milky Way, and both it and the word "galaxy" have their origins in the Greek word for milk, gala."
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Boil 15 large potatoes in jackets. When done peel and rice them, letting them cool about 5 minutes, then add 2 eggs, 1 1/2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon salt and roll into balls and roll balls in flour. Have a pot of boiling water on the fire, place the dumplings in the water that has been salted and boil for 10 minutes, remove and serve. Hasenpfeffer and Kartoffel Klosze are generally served together but either can be served separate or with o..
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A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought before a judge, and sentenced to public display. Nor could the accused escape their day
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Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Infants who were suckled by the same wet nurse were regarded as milk siblings and were forbidden by the Assyrians from intermarrying.
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