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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. -- Antonio Tabucchi
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. -- Nelson Mandela
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea. -- Pythagoras
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. -- Isak Dinesen
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. -- Herman Melville
I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach. -- Roma Downey
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. -- Dante Alighieri
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. -- Andrew Jackson
With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer. -- Lee Haney
I take everything with a grain of salt. -- Hope Solo
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. -- William Hazlitt
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. -- Angela Carter
Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt. -- Jimmy Buffett
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -- Stephen King
When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27. -- Sid Waddell
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost. -- George Jean Nathan
If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you. -- Chris Daughtry
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. -- Helen Rowland
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. -- Gautama Buddha
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. -- Anthony Trollope
Salt. Wound. Together at last. -- Maureen Johnson
Salt water is and isn't the ocean. -- Marty Rubin
Salt water is cleansing, be it sweat, the ocean, or tears. -- Jennifer Nettles
Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake. -- Karl Malone
I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.' -- Katrina Kaif
None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret. -- Cheryl James
Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white. -- Jay Rayner
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby. -- Patrick Fugit
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it. -- Louisa May Alcott
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt. -- Paracelsus
I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you. -- Peter Sagal
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. -- Calamity Jane
A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it. -- Cotton Mather
I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't. -- Sonia Johnson
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. -- Hermann Maier
Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth. -- Julio Cortazar
We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have. -- Terry Tempest Williams
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. -- Hillary Clinton
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it! -- Danai Gurira
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. -- Jane D. Hull
My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic. -- Estelle
I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa. -- Yvonne Strahovski
Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step. -- Mary N. Cook
Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it. -- Margaret Visser
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. -- Vance Havner
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture. -- Terry Tempest Williams
There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire -- Werner Herzog
Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker. -- Margaret Visser
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. -- Wallace Stegner
When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on. -- Pauley Perrette
My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like. -- Steve Young
I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality. -- Brittany Bowe
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. -- Bertrand Russell
Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor. -- Sally Schneider
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top. -- Hermann Maier
Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt. -- Ferran Adria
I would say that I mostly use Kosher Salt for seasoning my water and flour. I love sea salt, too. I think both are just fine, as long as it's not iodized salt. -- Wolfgang Puck
It always has been a goal of mine to compete in the Olympics. Right after I graduated from college, I moved out to Salt Lake City with my mind focused on making the 2014 team. -- Brittany Bowe
I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you've got salt crystals on your face. I love that, because it means you've worked really hard. -- Ellie Goulding
I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Salt, gathered from the tears of a thousand angels, restraining the essence of Sammael, the Hellhound. The Seed of Destruction. This I can promise, Sammael, for every one of you that falls, two shall arise. -- Grigori Rasputin
That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world. -- Hayley Wickenheiser
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. -- Douglas Adams
We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles. -- Olivia Wilde
When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. The classic Ying Yang Twins song 'Salt Shaker'? It's amazing. -- Roxane Gay
As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice. -- Karen Abbott
Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. -- Isak Dinesen
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley. -- Buffalo Bill
Andy Anderson has written an autobiography in pictures, a life on the water. Salt is an eloquent modern paean to the strength and beauty of the coastal waters he cares for at a time when that environment is in danger of disappearing. -- Guy De la Valdene
When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality. -- Brittany Bowe
I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy. -- Alain Vigneault
If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave. -- Trey Parker
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -- Stephen King
Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick? -- Sandra Lee
I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can. -- Anne Burrell
When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
I love being natural. I never feel more beautiful then after I've been to the beach and my hair's just a crazy mess of salt curls, or when I've just been outside all day hiking. -- Troian Bellisario
The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation. -- Joyce Meyer
You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt. -- Emma Roberts
I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive. -- Samantha Stosur
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets. -- Eva Zeisel
Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies. -- Michael Moss
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. -- Roseanne Barr
We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies. -- David Suzuki
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. -- Jamais Cascio
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. -- Mary Roach
In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness. -- Paula Deen
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. -- Jill Tarter
I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast. -- Summer Sanders
I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love with Edward before every other girl that says she's in love with him was. Because I read them a long time ago shooting a movie in Salt Lake City, and one of Stephenie Meyer's friends said, 'Make sure you read my friend's book.' -- Nina Dobrev
I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective. -- Bonnie Raitt
I take Epsom salt baths. -- Aaron Carter
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence. -- Victor Hugo
Business is the salt of life. -- Jeff Rich
Love is the salt of life. -- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men. -- Tanit Phoenix
Wonder is the salt of the earth. -- M. C. Escher
Disappointment is often the salt of life. -- Theodore Parker
Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water. -- Milarepa
Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt -- Pat Condell
Fish without wine is like egg without salt. -- Auguste Escoffier
Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat. -- Benjamin Franklin
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt. -- George Herbert
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. -- George Herbert
Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth. -- Joe Biden
A little truth seasons a lie like salt. -- Jacqueline Carey
Risk is the salt and sugar of life. -- Freya Stark
The sea drives truth into a man like salt. -- Hilaire Belloc
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption -- John Lancaster Spalding
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. -- Homer
A woman without paint is like food without salt. -- Plautus
When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt. -- Sanjaya Malakar
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself. -- Harper Lee

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