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• He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Animal, Men, Vanity

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• You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303

  Diane Setterfield

  Rain, Loss, Emotional

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• Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be removed completely. I heard about Dr Breuss and went to see him....he prescribed the juice treatment....By the time I had completed this juice treatment I felt fit and once again had a good appetite. Despite my 72 years I felt my old self again.

  Jurgen Neukirch

  Cancer, Years, Doctors

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• When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Prayer, Reading, Giving

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.119, Lulu.com

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• Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Book, Thinking, Truth Is

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• We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it. I personally wouldn’t be caught eating anything because I would end up dead. You might not. But you’d still have to fight them, and since some of them are rather ugly and really, really smelly, it might spoil your appetite. Then again, maybe not. Doesn’t spoil Noir’s. I think it makes him hungrier, especially when he guts them. Sick, but true. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Thinking, Smell

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.

  Washington Irving

  Ghouls, Paris, House

  Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Wilhelm Hauff (2011). “The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology”, p.16, Bottletree Books LLC

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• My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Earth Day, World, Ruins

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• He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

  Colum McCann

  People, Way, Use

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.196, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

  Jim Elliot

  Longing, Passion And Purity

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• When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.

  F.B. Meyer

  Believe, Heart, Voice

  F. B. Meyer (2010). “The Secret of Guidance”, p.42, Moody Publishers

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• I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

  Walt Whitman

  Prayer, Believe, Miracle

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.53, Delphi Classics

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• Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Passion, Men

  Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.

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• Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness

  Randall Robinson

  Communication, Community, Needs

  Randall Robinson (2001). “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks”, p.171, Penguin

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• Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

  Jon Foreman

  Dog, Pride, Nudge Nudge

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• Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Food, Heart, Ease

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• I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not diet than not work out and have to diet.

  Marisa Miller

  Work Out, Know Me, Knows

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• I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

  Wallace Shawn

  Eye, Enormous, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.

  Rob Sheffield

  Blood, Lust, Secret

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• Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

  David Suzuki

  People, Mind, Energy

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• I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Mean, Being In Love, Thinking

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• I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Brows

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• All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Self, Expression, Rubbish

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

  Ellen G. White

  May, Restriction, Theory

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