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41 " To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought. "
― Robert Graves
42 " An entire aisle of cereal...hundreds of choices....Of course I had eaten cereal before. I'm not a savage....Cereal was a small, affordable luxury. An effort. A point of pride. Something special....Those crates of cereal meant that we deserved what others do not.... Here the choices that stand before me in the store aisles seem to exist only to mock me. Cereal isn't a luxury...the boxes laugh at me...Two aisles down I count 27 varieties of peanut butter....it is really necessary? "
43 " The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know. "
― Renata Adler , Speedboat
44 " How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese? "
45 " I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. "
46 " There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest. "
47 " I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect. "
48 " There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible. "
49 " When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. "
