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• One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.

  Daniel Drezner

  Numbers, September 11, Zombie

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• Employers crave the power to fire workers whose performance is judged inferior-not just to get rid of those particular workers, but more importantly to motivate and discipline the rest of the workforce.

  Jim Stanford

  Fire, Discipline, Employers

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

  Tim Lebbon

  Knowledge, Ends, Craving

  Tim Lebbon (2009). “Fallen”, Spectra

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• I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

  Amanda Palmer

  Commitment, Degrees, Burning

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• We don't “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Animal, Eggs, Flavor

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• You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

  Shanola Hampton

  Different, Complaining, World

  "5 Questions w/ 'Shameless' Star Shanola Hampton". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 10, 2013.

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• Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive!

  David Wolfe

  Coffee, Alcohol, Body

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• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Pain, Moving

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• Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace.

  Robert Spector

  Mom, Animal, Community

  Robert Spector (2010). “The Mom & Pop Store: True Stories from the Heart of America”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Confused, People, Pits

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• Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.123

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• Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Interesting, Police

  "Brokeback Mountain' Revisited". WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.

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• So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Love, Heart, People

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

  Susie Bright

  Knowing, Dykes, Looks

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• People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.

  Patch Adams

  Laughter, People, Essentials

  Patch Adams, M.D. (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.74, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

  Marianne Williamson

  Peace, Keys, Creating

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.49, Penguin

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• With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Hair, Long, Style

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• But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Mean, Needs, Rift

  Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.190, Red Lemonade

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• My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind for bids to crave.

  Edward Dyer

  Joy, Mind, Earth

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• To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.

  Faith Popcorn

  Individuality, Recognition, Consumers

  Faith Popcorn (2001). “EVEolution: Understanding Women - 8 Essential Truths That Work In Your Business & Life”, p.12, BookBaby

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• My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Children, Holiday, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, Desire

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.416, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

  T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

  Home, Surroundings, Autobiography

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• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.264

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• I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Artist, Helping Others, Soul

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