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181 " Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. "

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

182 " Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. "

― Idries Shah , Caravan of Dreams

183 " I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities. "

― , Death Before Bedtime

184 " But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar.
So that's us: processed corn, walking. "

― Michael Pollan , The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

185 " Wolsey and Henry VIII, it has to be said, were not exceptional in their love of the table. The English of Tudor times had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony. Indeed, overeating was regarded as the English vice in the same way that lust was the French one and drunkenness that of the Germans (although looking at the amount of alcohol consumed in England, I expect the English probably ran a close second to the Germans). "

― Clarissa Dickson Wright , A History of English Food

186 " During the course of my research on #herbs mentioned in the #Bible , I found that #pomegranate is regarded as a wonder #fruit in many other. "

― Sudhir Ahluwalia , Holy Herbs: Modern Connections to Ancient Plants

187 " We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge. "

― Rick Yancey