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• Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Despair, Relax, Steel

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• ... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Prayer, Grief, Tired

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• The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Law, Land, Division

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 2), 1766.

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• Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Education, Spiritual, Children

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• There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Things In Life, Two

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• Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

  Jeremy Collier

  People, May, Too Much

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• It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Meals, Mystery

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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• Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

  Simone Weil

  Appreciate, Flavor, Form

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Satisfaction, Art Is

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• Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Baby, Children, Mean

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Montessori's Own Handbook”, p.62, Montessori Helper

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• I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

  Rod McKuen

  Broken Heart, Memories, Sunday

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• Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Real, Men, Two

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.126, Book Tree

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• Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Intelligent, Doe

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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• I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

  Gisele Bundchen

  Believe, Love Is, Feelings

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• O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.

  John Woolman

  War, Light, House

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• Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.

  Alexander Lowen

  Children, Needs, Narcissistic

  Alexander Lowen (1978). “The Language of the Body”

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• All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.

  John Ruskin

  Clouds, Tree, Opinion

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters”, p.11

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• My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe

  Jandy Nelson

  Flower, Grandmother, Thinking

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.36, Penguin

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• Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Animal, Light

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

  Cennino Cennini

  Artist, Practice, Imitation

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• True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Memories, Lying, Creative

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• Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

  Abraham Cowley

  Morning, Wine, Self

  Abraham Cowley (1772). “Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.148

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• That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Body, Stomach, Quantity

  Benjamin Franklin (1931). “The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin”, p.33, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Space, Wealth, Cocoa

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• People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Lying, People

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