Goat cheese. . . produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced … - Russell Baker

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An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God. " The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

Russell Baker

Goat cheese. . . produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

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