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• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cake, Missing, Tea

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.402, Courier Dover Publications

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• I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Want, Coke

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.

  Bessie Smith

  Sexy, Dog, Hot

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• I consume too much sugar. It’s a problem, I need to stop.

  Kevin Jonas

  Needs, Too Much, Problem

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• The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

  Anthony Trollope

  Children, Party, Plums

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.707, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.

  Eddie Izzard

  Giving, Comedian, Brain

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Meat, Bread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.

  Arjun Rampal

  Coffee, Tea, Mind

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  You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

  Billie Holiday

  Hair, White, Black History

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 11 (1956).

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• The reason it's called "Grape Nuts" is that it contains "dextrose," which is also sometimes called "grape sugar," and also because "Grape Nuts" is catchier, in terms of marketing, than "A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel," which is what it tastes like.

  Dave Barry

  Nuts, Marketing, Taste

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• Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Moving Forward, Ideas, Joy

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.205, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Sweet, Berries, Juicy

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• Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

  Alice Walker

  Change, White, Collaboration

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Horse, Writing

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• We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.

  Ron Rosedale

  Wellness, Increase, Insulin

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• Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Fancy, Salt

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• That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

  Smokey Robinson

  Dog, Nice, Love Is

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• I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Issues, Long, Red

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• The Glycemic Index is one the best tools for fat loss. It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream.

  Al Sears

  Loss, Tools, Fats

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• Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

  Alan Sugar

  Back To Work

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• Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

  Alan Sugar

  Ends

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Success, Education

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Believe, Rays, Said

  "The sugar in the sweet science" by Ron Flatter, www.espn.com.

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• I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

  Alan Sugar

  Principles, Compromise

  Alan Sugar (2015). “Unscripted: My Ten Years in Telly”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

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