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• Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

  Jim Rohn

  Tyranny, Restraint, Knows

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 07, 2014

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• Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Wine, Sadness

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• I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

  Arnold Adoff

  Jobs, Attitude, Children

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• The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Encouragement, Thinking, Healthy

  "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder". Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television, www.edge.org. November 12, 1996.

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• Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

  Alan D. Eames

  Beer, Agriculture, Village Life

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• We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Pain, Passion, Animal

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• O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.

  Charles Olson

  Running, Nebula, Swirls

  Charles Olson (1997). “Collected Prose”, p.252, Univ of California Press

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• One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Ambition, Men, Discipline

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• Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

  James E. Faust

  Passion, Character, Climbing

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• Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

  Paul Brunton

  Taken, Abnormal, Hunger

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body”

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• Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

  Russell Kirk

  Real, Order, Doctrine

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.30, Regnery Publishing

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• As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Mean, Men

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Country, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.88, HarperCollins UK

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• Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Party, Tea, Novelty

  Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.326, Penguin UK

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• Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

  Marvin Harris

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, Victory

  Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage

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• An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

  David O. McKay

  Mean, Mind, Progress

  Title of Valedictorian address, 1897.

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• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

  Angus Wilson

  Pride, Feet, Self

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• A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.

  Daniel Hack Tuke

  Sex, Opposites, Erotic

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• But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Mean, Mislead Us

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1792). “The rambler”, p.233

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• John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

  Emma Goldman

  Character, Animal, Space

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Food, Heart, Ease

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• Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Brain, Protein, Calories

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• We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  World, Taste, Forget

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• I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

  Charles Dickens

  Humility, Pie

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick papers”, p.143

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• Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Zest, Giving

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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