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"Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven." »Yiddish Proverb
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"Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough." »Author Unknown
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"It's easy to halve the potato where there's love." »Irish Proverb
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"High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad." »Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)
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"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground." »Thomas Overbury
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"Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be." »David Grayson
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"The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground." »Sir Thos Overbury
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"All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending that he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word." »Ian Shoales
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"Worship the potato The idea seemed silly to me. But then I thought, what else is more deserving of worship It's simple, it comes from the earth, and it can kill you if you disobey it." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure." »Charlotte Bronte
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"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout." »Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
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"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul." »Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
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