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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
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"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."

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Olivia Wilde Actress, Producer, Director
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"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."

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Wyndham Lewis Artist and Writer
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"No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"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."

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Kami Garcia Author
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"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—"

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses."

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"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."

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