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Like the Shakers, the Perfectionists believed that the prophesied millennium had already commenced, that they were freed from sin, and that it was up to them to commence building the perfect earthly society. To do so, they discarded
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“With cooking, plants and animals became the raw materials for food, not food itself.”
― Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food and Culture Book 43)
― Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food and Culture Book 43)
“For a typical North American, their fat tissue is their biggest organ,” says James Kirkland,”
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
“All the world feels that a man when married acquires some of the attributes of an old woman—he”
― Doctor Thorne
― Doctor Thorne
“There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.”
― The Last Samurai
― The Last Samurai
“On 24 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God’s love for humankind.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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