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• Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Passion, Men

  Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.

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• Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man looks at her, all he can think about is – well, her mouth, and – ” “Emma?” Torie’s own mouth gaped in astonishment. Patrick crossed his legs. “Maybe we’re not talking about the same person. British accent? Good appetite? Hums songs from The Lion King when she doesn’t think anybody’s listening?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Song, Kings, Believe

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• I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Body, Flesh

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• I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Nationalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.174, Penguin

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• No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suffering, Belief, Martyr

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

  Rachel Caine

  Selfish, Dark, Survival

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Total Eclipse”, p.103, Allison & Busby

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• Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Age

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

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• But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

  Rick Yancey

  Monsters, Shapes, Flesh

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.

  Barbara Park

  Grief, Mean, Thoughtful

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• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

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• The appetite grows with eating.

  Francois Rabelais

  Food, Eating, Grows

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• The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Freedom, Responsibility

  "For America's Sake". Speech on December 12, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 21, 2008.

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• It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Morning, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1926). “Virginibus Puerisque ; And, Across the Plains”

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• History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

  Edmund Burke

  Revenge, Ambition, Pride

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.161

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• Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Evil, Politics, Crime

  "Kim Jong-il's Willing Accomplices" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. May 24, 2010.

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• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

  Simone Weil

  Country, Power, Men

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• The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Power, Achievement, Growth

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”

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• The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals. The Jupiter of the Pagans is a lascivious monster. The Moloch of the Phoenicians is a cannibal. The pure mind of the Christians resolved, in order to appease his fury, to crucify his own son. The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Christian, Son, Animal

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• When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us by God. There are no rules of temperance or laws requiring moderation or boundaries beyond which we cannot go in seeking to enjoy Him. We need never pause to inquire whether we've crossed a line or become overindulgent. You need never fear feeling too good about God.

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Law, Feelings

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• Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from God, so long are you young.

  Samuel Ullman

  Funny, Birthday, Cheer

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

  Horace

  Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

  Simone Weil

  Book, Moments, Hungry

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.15, Routledge

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• Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hard Work, Health, Science

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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