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«Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Zen
| Keywords:
confuse, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, potatoes, spirituality, Zen
«The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.»
Author: Alexander Theroux
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banana, bananas, brown, butter, consumption, daintily, debutante, duck, hash, hashed, hoisin sauce, parrot, parrots, potatoes, pot roast, predilection, predilections, prim, roast, Roast duck, sauce, sesame, sesame seed, thumb
«The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.»
Author: Bob Greene
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Journalism
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performed, potatoes, Reporters, wire, wire service
«Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.»
Author: Diane Ackerman
(Writer)
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August, detonate, land mines, midwestern, mines, myrtle, poignant, pot, potatoes, pot roast, roast, roasting, smells, softly, sweet potato, weedy
«Shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There's, um, shrimp kebabs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp and lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.»
Author: Mykelti Williamson
(Actor)
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bake, baked potato, bakes, baking, barbecue, barbecued, boil, broil, broiled, broiling, burger, coconut, coconuts, creole, deep-fried, deep sea, fried, frying pan, gumbo, lemon, Pan, panning, pan out, pepper, peppered, peppers, pineapple, potatoes, potato salad, salad, sandwich, shrimp, soup, stew, stewed, stewing, stir
«What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.»
«To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.»
«We can get fuel from fruit, from that shrub by the roadside, or from apples, weeds, saw-dust - almost anything! There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There is enough alcohol in one year's yield of a hectare of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the field for a hundred years. And it remains for someone to find out how this fuel can be produced commercially - better fuel at a cheaper price than we know now.»
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