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• What you feed your mind determines your appetite.

  Zig Ziglar

  Mind, Determine

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 24, 2013

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• Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

  Aristippus

  Cheer, Good Life, Hindrance

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• No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

  John Tillotson

  Strong, Passion, Men

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• If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

  William Penn

  Art, Food, Cooking

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.127

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• I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Shameless, Share

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 11, 1968.

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• Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

  Horace

  Essence, Yesterday, Soul

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• Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hunger, Instinct, Providence

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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• Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

  Charles Lamb

  Spurs, Might, Kind

  Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series”, p.128

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• Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

  Mark Twain

  Men, Sand, Crops

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.297, eKitap Projesi

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• Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Inspirational, Despair, Opinion

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  William Banting

  True Friend, Exercise, Old Friends

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12

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• I have learned that you can’t have good advertising without a good client, that you can’t keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.

  Leo Burnett

  Clients, Advertising, Economy

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Interesting, Risk

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• I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

  LaToya Jackson

  Wells

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• I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

  Jewel

  Bored, Challenges, Looking For Love

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• LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Food, Delight

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1841). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.683

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

  Stephen King

  Art, Giving, Talent

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 20, 2014

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• When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hate, Sleep, Blood

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Appetite, a universal wolf.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.231

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• ...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

  Laurel Lea

  Kings, Common, Turns

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• Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

  Francois Rabelais

  Drinking, Food, Eating

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• Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

  Anthony Trollope

  Funny Love, Food, Cooking

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.606, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Writing, Cooking

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

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• When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

  Marge Piercy

  Eye, Angel, Brain

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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