"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."

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The theme of food is universal, yet Finley Peter Dunne manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on food often shapes our reality.

About Finley Peter Dunne

Finley Peter Dunne was an American humorist, journalist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, his first collection of the nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches. Written as though speaking with the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant from County Roscommon, Dunne's fictional "Mr. Dooley" expounded upon political and social issues of the day from behind the bar of his South Side Chicago Irish pub. Dunne's sly humor and political acumen won the support of President Theodore Roosevelt, a frequent target of Mr. Dooley's barbs. Dunne's sketches became so popular and such a litmus test of public opinion that his newspaper column was read each week at White House cabinet meetings.

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"It's more comfortable to feel that we're a slight improvement on a monkey thin such a fallin' off fr'm th'angels."

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"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."

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"A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tu-rrned into angels be an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large."

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"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case."

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"In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'"

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"I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe."

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