The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
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less are thoughts of mortality cord... THOMAS FULLER May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs. KAREN BENDER There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from t... SUSAN B. ANTHONY The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day se... THOMAS M. DISCH The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his
price; that is to say, so much as w... THOMAS HOBBES When you're standing close and there's a fresh deer in it, you can smell it. But it doesn't take lon... CORA HELM Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his ... MICHAEL MOORCOCK He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD Sebring is one of our bread-and-butter sedans in terms of providing good, solid transportation at a ... KEVIN MCCORMICK I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible ... INA GARTEN Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes... MARY OLIVER He was attracted to this edge of unknowing, of hope and fear, he instinctively knew that surfing it ... MATT PADWICK I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled fresh, freshly washed or of fresh laundry or ... BERNHARD SCHLINK So you think of it as bread? BOBBY FLAY When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a fu... MARK TWAIN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chant... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You know you're fat when you use a piece of a bread as a napkin. ROBERT KELLY The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. DANIEL WEBSTER I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hall... BIBLE Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms. JACINTA MPALYENKANA The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by
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HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male. S. E. HINTON I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it. S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer... S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life. S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i... S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist... S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. S. E. 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RAMACHANDRAN You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the b... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in L... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The brain abhors discrepancies. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN