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• It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

  Laini Taylor

  Dragons, Monsters, Village

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

  Nicolas Caussin

  Ambition, Fire, Wind

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• We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing, not only from future generations in terms of diminished resources, but from ourselves in terms of unlivable cities, deadening jobs, deteriorating health, and rising crime. In biological terms, we have become a parasite and are devouring our host.

  Paul Hawken

  Jobs, Cities, Environmental

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• We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Should Have, Cities

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• In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

  William James

  Art, Teaching, Psychology

  William James (1912). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”

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• If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Heaven, Purpose

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.144, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like candy for me. I would go over to his house for a sleep-over, and I would just be devouring everything I could get my hands on. I knew the sleep-over was going to be over, and I was going to go back to my house and it was going to be Kipling.

  James Spader

  Growing Up, Book, Sleep

  Source: collider.com

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• Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

  Russell Kirk

  Innovation, Progress, Torches

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• Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Agency, Coercion, Birth

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• President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.

  Ralph Nader

  Stars, Military, Fighting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Soul, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

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• Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Fighting, Monsters

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• Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ocean, Society, Levels

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• If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.

  Mohammed Emami-Kashani

  Fall, People, Disrespect

  "Tehran Friday Sermon: Iranians Will Punch Americans in the Mouth So Hard All Their Devouring Teeth Will Fall Out". memritv.org, January 2005.

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• Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

  Colson Whitehead

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

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• Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

  William P. Young

  Punishment, Sin, Shack

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• Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Reading, Journey

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• The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.

  Ralph Nader

  Crush, Country, Rights

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Life, Lying, Science

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• We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us.
  It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present.

  Guillaume Faye

  Restoration, Matter, Pox

  Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

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• We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? We’re already overpopulated. I feel we’ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, we’ll just keep devouring the planet, and I don’t think it’s going to stand for that very long.

  Morgan Freeman

  Cutting, Thinking, Animal

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• Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor.

  Ruben Papian

  Doctors, Self, Patient

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.27

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• Cannibals are devouring senators.

  Arlen Specter

  Cannibal, Senators

  "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

  Clive Barker

  Phrases, World, Realizing

  Clive Barker (1984). “Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volumes One, Two and Three”

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• Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

  Anais Nin

  People, Monsters, Creation

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