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• We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians.

  Robert Lustig

  Mother, Exercise, Epidemics

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

  James Monroe

  War, Half, Century

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• You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.

  Al Gore

  Balance, Energy, Waste

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• The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Generations, Saving, Source

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available and thereby makes it possible to embark upon projects which could not be executed before.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Income, Increase

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Air, Years, Water

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• Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps.

  Dana Gould

  Love Is, Violent, Intensity

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• I was pretty much consumed by this character. Even when I was off, I was continually searching to find something else new about [Idi] Amin, and to embed myself deeper into the culture to the point that, in the end, I was so entrenched that I could tell what tribe someone was from just by looking at them.

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, Culture, Tribes

  Source: aalbc.com

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• First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get the time to do because you're so consumed with everything that's going on. You can't just disappear.

  J.H. Wyman

  Running, People, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent with friends was consumed by disagreement, then there was no room for the essence of friendship, which was a sharing of the world. And that sharing involved seeing things the same way, or at least seeing things through the eyes of the friend.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Essence, World

  Alexander McCall Smith (2011). “The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• I was consumed with being a mom. I didn't think beyond that.

  Teri Hatcher

  Mom, Thinking, Being A Mom

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

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• The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Class

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.32, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

  Nate Lowman

  News, Use, Stealing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like an oxygen tank when you can't breath in a world consumed by piety, hypocrisy and self-satisfaction.

  Simon Critchley

  Dark, Self, Oxygen

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• People of the world, the time for decision is short. It is measured in a few years. The choice is ours as to whether or not we will pay the price of peace. If we are not willing to pay it, all that we hold dear will be consumed in the flame of war. The darkness in our world today is due to the disintegration of things which are contrary to God's laws. Let us never say hopelessly this is the darkness before a storm; rather let us say with faith this is the darkness before the dawn of the golden age of peace, which we cannot now even imagine. For this, let us hope and work and pray.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Flames, Years

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.110, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for clothing. What would it mean if we all consumed 20 percent less? It would be catastrophic. It would mean 20 percent less jobs, 20 percent less taxes, 20 percent less money for schools, doctors, roads. The global economy would collapse.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, School, Mean

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• I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.

  John Swihart

  People, My Thoughts, Feels

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• I've been on a 46-year diet of olives and alcohol. The latter I consume. The former I save and use over again in more alcohol. In my lifetime, I imagine, I have consumed at least $200,000 worth of whisky.

  W. C. Fields

  Years, Alcohol, Use

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• I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till it be consumed: And thisevent, I think I can foretell with the same assurance, as that, if he throw himself out at the window, and meet with no obstruction, he will not remain a moment suspended in the air.

  David Hume

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  David Hume (1894). “An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding: And An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”

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• It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Struggle, Fall

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• Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
  When, after death, man's honor is his guard.
  So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
  Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

  Ovid

  Death, Lying, Men

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• I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Lucky

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.

  Robert Greene

  Dream, Jobs, Water

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a revolution in the way that we consume creative property, which I would call art. It has radically changed the relationship between the artist and the audience, how money changes hands, and how much money changes hands. Music was the first, and books are coming next. The Kindle or some form of electronic book is clearly inevitable, and it will massively reshape how books are sold, who pays for them, and how they're consumed. It is going to be really fascinating.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Art, Book, Hands

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