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"“Minced meat cooked with almond, walnut, pistachios, onion and spices placed inside a thin bread and fried in ghee."

"You may divide literature into two great classes of books. The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who had something to say. They had in life learned something, or seen so…"

"Bedrooms and libraries ought to have an eastern exposure, because their purposes require the morning light, and also because books in such libraries will not decay."

"Shirley Chisholm's Unbought and Unbossed book web site by editor Scot Simpson"

"We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. … If we have a taste for some one pre…"

"Summarizing the evidence relating to the slaughter of the Buddhist Monks perpetrated by the Musalman General in the course of his invasion of Bihar in 1197 AD, Mr. Vincent Smith says, "....Great quant…"

"Fred Blair, Canada's top immigration official, when asked how many Jewish refugees Canada would accept, flippantly replied “None is too many”—a response that provided Irving Abella and Harold Troper w…"

"Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly..."

"It’s hard to overstate the extent to which this confidence is unearned. Kushner was a reportedly mediocre student whose billionaire father appears to have bought him a place at Harvard. Taking over th…"

"… dressed all in yellow spreading warmth and the promise of sex."

"Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire,” when the saying should have been, “Where there’s sc…"

"Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them."

"I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane."

"It's a public library. If you don't like the book, magazine, CD-ROM or film, put it down and pick up something else. Libraries provide choice. Our responsibility is to have in our collection a broad r…"

"I was kind of solitary. I'd spend a lot of time on my own, reading books. I didn't integrate very well."

"The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism—Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860—it is part o…"

"The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway."

"Peter Weiss pages by emmyBCA"

"This book is... devoted to the study of economic policies to enhance the quality of life. Our willingness to embark on so considerable a subject only reflects our conviction that economists as a body …"

"Interview on CBSNews about novel Mr g,"