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• They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Stopping, Lasts

  "September 11, 2001: Attack on America". Donald Rumsfeld's remarks during the the U.S. Department of Defense News Briefing, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 13, 2001.

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• You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

  Ray Romano

  Home, Opposites, Wife

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• There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Home, Differences

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.

  Neil Young

  Mother, Children, Choices

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• In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Flower, White, Saws

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

  Arianna Huffington

  Business, America, Government

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.3, Crown

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• What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.

  Ace Hood

  Energy, Fans, Concerts

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

  Nigella Lawson

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

  Hannah Arendt

  Power, Self, Political

  Origins of Totalitarianism ch. 5 (1951)

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• Women want to control other women because they've been controlled themselves. It's a cycle of control. I'm not blaming women for that, but I am saying we're part of a toxic culture that's feeding all of us the same messaging.

  Lena Dunham

  Toxic, Culture, Want

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).

  May Sarton

  Men, Differences, Understanding

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• Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself,
  And so shall starve with feeding.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Meat, Eating

  1608 Volumnia. Coriolanus, act 4, sc.2, l.53-4.

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• I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Soul, Poison, Sin

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• Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

  Pliny the Elder

  Simple, Meat, Sauce

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15Natural History, Book XI, Chapter LIII. Holland's translation, 1922.

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• A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the water's surface on the immature forms of aquatic insects. Some anglers are even more precise, but whatever the exact percentage , it's safe to say that to fully appreciate any tailwater fishery you will have to learn the fine art of nymphing.

  Ed Engle

  Art, Sea, Fishing

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.65, Stackpole Books

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• [Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Dog, Addiction, Enough

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• How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.

  J. G. Holland

  Spiritual, Long, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

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• ... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.

  Andrea Mitchell

  People, Grace, News

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.120, Penguin

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• I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
  It vexes me to choose another guide:
  Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
  Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Blow, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.

  Denis Hayes

  Thinking, Desire, Debtors

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

  Sarah Miles

  Miracle, Kind, Hunger

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• Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

  Robert D. Hare

  Predator, Prestige, Social

  "'Corporate psychopaths' at large" by Lisa Desai, edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.

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• I think the most important thing [for moms] is - I always liked help with feeding essentials like breastfeeding stuff, because it's really tricky.

  Kim Kardashian

  Thinking, Important, Essentials

  "Kim Kardashian on North West's Princess Style, Wipe Warmers, and Why Pregnant Women Should Never Leave the House". Interview with Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. July 10, 2014.

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• Ive taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and Ive actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Believe, Taken, Thoughtful

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• It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the fresh meat. I kinda go for the meat that's kinda been forgot for a while.

  Colin Munroe

  Mean, Musical, Meat

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