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"Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it."
"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter."
"A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet."
"Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part."
"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."
"Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat."
"We have some salt of our youth in us."
"No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion."
"If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely."
"The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—"
"For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost."
"Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses."
"The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy."
"Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before."
"There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it."
"It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?"
"Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06."
"Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar."
"A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense."