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• The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

  Tobias Smollett

  Time, Support, Monsters

  'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' (1771) vol. 1, letter from Matthew Bramble, 29 May

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• Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Prayer, Bereavement, Soul

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.717, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Herbes... comfort the wearied braine with fragrant smells which yielde a certaine kind of nourishment.

  William H. Coles

  Smell, Comfort, Kind

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• If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of nourishment (something that the globalisation gurus seem altogether to have foregone), and a challenge (how negotiate difference, how to address inequality, and so forth).

  Doreen Massey

  Differences, Space, Challenges

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.

  Luigi Cornaro

  Life, Men, Hands

  LUIGI CORNARO (1915). “The Art of LIVING LONG”

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• There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.

  Clarence Robison

  Life, Spiritual, Law

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• I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Example, Doe, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.

  Lynne Rossetto Kasper

  Food, Responsibility, People

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• Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

  Mona Simpson

  Reading, Book, Vacation

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• To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

  Marya Mannes

  Peace, Self, Would Be

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• We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.

  N.D. Wilson

  Needs, Narrative, Catechism

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• Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.

  Hilary Mantel

  Firsts, Milk, Imagine

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.

  Pope Francis

  Powerful, Medicine, Perfect

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

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• Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in the forty weeks of pregnancy. Excellent nutrition includes pure water, controlled breath, abundant light, loving and respectful relationships, beauty and harmony in daily life, positive, joyous thoughts, and vital foodstuffs.

  Susun Weed

  Wise, Children, Pregnancy

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• Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

  Jules Michelet

  Coffee, Reality, Clouds

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• Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

  Allen Rosenberg

  Challenges, Solitude, Rowing

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• Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives its nourishment and life. There is no people that can live without land, as there is no tree which can live hanging in air.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Country, Air, Land

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.106, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Self, Alive

  Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown (2014). “Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects”, p.91, New Society Publishers

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• The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Film, Terrible, Attraction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

  JOHN OWEN, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE GLORY OF CHRIST”, Lulu.com

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• The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

  Upton Sinclair

  Firsts, Study, Ancient

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

  David Penman

  Encouragement, People, Church

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• O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Fall, Men, Mad

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• Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the purpose of the branch, but it is not the responsibility of the branch. The branch cannot produce anything on it's own. However, if it remains attached to the vine, it will receive life-sustaining sap, nourishment, strength, everything it needs.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Responsibility, Fruit

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• Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.

  Christopher Castellani

  Sweet, Children, Lying

  Source: therumpus.net

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