Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. - Plutarch - Quotesmemo.com

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The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.

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Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

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