A Quote by John Ciardi

Fermentation equals civilization.

John Ciardi

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Civilization Equals Fermentation

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John Ciardi
English - Dramatist
June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986

I've been amazed to learn all of the links between microbial health and our general health. This all started by trying to understand fermentation. The fermentation outside your body, and its relation to the fermentation inside your body. The key to health is fermentation, it turns out.

Michael Pollan

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

John Ciardi

My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with a vital act, beginning and ending with the latter. I believe that there is never any alcoholic fermentation without their being simultaneously the organization, development, multiplication of the globules, or the pursued, continued life of globules which are already formed.

Louis Pasteur

"Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?"

Robertson Davies

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Cris Mazza

Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.

Adam Sandler

Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.

Jonathan Miles

Bush equals Clinton equals Bush equals Obama equals Clinton. It's the same policies...immigration policies that may turn us into Europe, where hordes of Islamic madmen are raping, killing, pillaging, defecating in public fountains, harassing private citizens, elderly people - that's what's coming.

Roger Stone

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

Tom Robbins

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will'.

Phyllis George

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.'

Phyllis George

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

George Mason

Man versus woman equals fun. Man versus man equals gay. Woman versus woman equals awesome. Man versus pillow equals crazy. Pillow versus pillow equals crazy awesome - that's a real pillow fight right there. You see two pillows fighting, you know something's going down. They're designed for relaxation. If they're fighting, what hope do we have? One time I saw two geese fighting, and I was like, 'This is a pillow fight ahead of time.

Demetri Martin

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