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Quote by Christopher Dawson
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You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. – Christopher Dawson

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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. – Christopher Dawson

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Knowledge
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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. – Christopher Dawson

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Men
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. – Christopher Dawson

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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? – Joyce Carol Oates

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I swear I want to be a food model. – Amy Sedaris

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Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray. – Author Unknown

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Food

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school. – Brittany Snow

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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals. – Finley Peter Dunne

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