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• Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, contains a plethora of naturally-occurring compounds, including several classes of antioxidants.

  Chris Kilham

  Coffee, Class, World

  "Coffee: An effective weight loss tool" by Chris Kilham, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Heart, Past, Thinking

  "Sheryl Sandberg Offers Grieving Guidance, Calls for Support Systems After Husband's Death" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 3, 2015.

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• You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Flames, Rejuvenation

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

  Laozi

  People, Suffering, Taxes

  Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment of fruits and vegetables consumed, the lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there's one thing we know for sure: raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Powerful, Cancer, Heart

  Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even to replace the machinery and goods-in-process that were consumed during the decade.

  Robert P. Murphy

  Pumps, Investment, Enough

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• The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.

  John B. Cobb

  Oil, Environmental, Needs

  John B. Cobb (1994). “Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy”

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• If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

  Peter Heller

  Ifs

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.113, Vintage

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• I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Reality, Culture, Poverty

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.

  Vance Joy

  Jobs, Personality, Creative

  "Vance Joy’s Imaginary Dreams". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2014.

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• Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Love, Letting Go, Distance

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.23, Penguin

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• Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke.

  Toni Morrison

  Hate, Hatred, Leaving

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• The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultimate environment - the infinite, personal God who is really there - then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Fall, Dragons, Mind

  Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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• For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Fall, Taken, Cutting

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• I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower selling child who asked me for twopence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.” “A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said. “Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Children, Flower

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• I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stupid, Would Be, Littles

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• It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Different, Stories, Way

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.112, Bantam

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• When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.

  Francis Chan

  Jobs, Thinking, Stressed

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.43, David C Cook

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• Any cupcake consumed before 9AM is, technically, a muffin.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Cupcakes, Muffins

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• Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.

  Sarah Monette

  Stars, War, Passion

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• [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Strong, Jumping

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• When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. ~For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. ~Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Blood, Hands

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Believe, Suffering, World

  "Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.

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