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• Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing, bacteria left behind resettle on your teeth and gums. Oil pulling reaches virtually 100 percent of the mouth, thereby affecting all bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa in the mouth.

  Bruce Fife

  Oil, Bacteria, Teeth

  Bruce Fife (2017). “Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing”, p.89, Piccadilly Books, Ltd.

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• ...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hero, Needs, Caves

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Last Continent: (Discworld Novel 22)”, p.383, Random House

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• It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical.

  Hannah Arendt

  Roots, Evil, Frustrated

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

  Lisa Edelstein

  Hate, Kids, Kale

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• I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Sunshine, Government, Always Believe

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• The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Agency

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• At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.

  William Standish Knowles

  Dog, Years, Two

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• But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.

  William Carlos Williams

  Wall, Liars, Mushrooms

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

  William Dean Howells

  Growing, Slavery, Wrecks

  William Dean Howells (1872). “Their Wedding Journey”, p.154

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• So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.

  Lee Goldberg

  Eye, Animal, Rivers

  Lee Goldberg (2009). “Mr. Monk in Trouble”, p.70, Penguin

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• I wouldn't say hate, exactly. You're kind of like fungus, Gwen. After a while, you just start growing on people.

  Jennifer Estep

  Hate, People, Growing

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.187, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wind, Sky, One Day

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• Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Watches

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• It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold, meaningless space. But just because our existence may have arisen unintentionally and without purpose doesn't preclude meaning or purpose from emerging as a result of our interaction and collaboration. Meaning may not be a precondition for humanity as much as a by-product of it.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Space, People, Humanity

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• A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

  China Mieville

  Mouths, Littles, Grew

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• A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

  Manny Farber

  Art, Moss, Peculiar

  Manny Farber (2009). “Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies”, p.135, Da Capo Press

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• Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

  Joel Achenbach

  Disappointment, Thinking, Earthquakes

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• Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dog, Horse, Motivation

  Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 483), 1996.

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• Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.

  Neel Burton

  Wine, Men, Vintage

  Neel Burton (2016). “The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition”, p.22, Acheron Press

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• They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Sky, Atmosphere, Decay

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Engineering, Example, Pests

  "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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• So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Growing Up, Expression, Brain

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.636, Jazzybee Verlag

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• At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere.

  Rob Thurman

  Airplane, One Day, Television

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.34, Penguin

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• Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Mushrooms, Ambitious, Causes

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• Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, People, Grace

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