“For Washington, parties weren’t so much expressions of popular politics as their negation, denying the true will of the people as expressed through their chosen representatives.”
― Washington: A Life
― Washington: A Life
“As a culture, we’ve become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.”
― Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
― Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
“On average, we consume 71 pounds of caloric sweeteners each year. That’s 22 teaspoons of sugar, per person, per day.”
― Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
― Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
“Many of the Prego sauces—whether cheesy, chunky, or light—have one feature in common: The largest ingredient, after tomatoes, is sugar.”
― Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
― Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
“I have only one piece of advice for what it’s worth: if you don’t want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.”
― Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
― Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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