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• The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Men, Vanity

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Shadows from the Big Woods", p. 225), 1977.

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• A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hard Work, Night, Men

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• Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Should Have

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• Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

  Dallas Willard

  Fasting, Source, Findings

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• Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Giving Money, Jewish Community

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Aquinas Selected Political Writings”

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• You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.

  Sylvia Earle

  Taken, Order, Ecosystems

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance, or rendering that agreeable to the taste which is essential to the support of life, and of pleasing the palate without injury to the system, is, strictly speaking, a branch of chemistry; but, important as it is both to our enjoyments and our health, it is also one of the latest cultivated branches of the science.

  Friedrich Accum

  Art, Support, Important

  Friedrich Christian Accum (1821). “Culinary chemistry: exhibiting the scientific principles of cookery, with concise instructions for preparing good and wholesome pickles, vinegar, conserves, fruit jellies, marmalades, and various other alimentary substances employed in domestic economy, with observations on the chemical constitution and nutritive qualities of different kinds of food : with copper plates”, p.1

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• I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Kids, Pleasure, Existence

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

  Cokie Roberts

  Safety, Laughing, Needs

  Cokie Roberts (1998). “We Are Our Mothers' Daughters”

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• I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Ideas, Comforting

  Zane Grey, Max Brand, Owen Wister, James Fenimore Cooper, B. M. Bower (2017). “60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…”, p.4057, e-artnow

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• Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
  Your sustenance and birthright are.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Military, Honor, Birthright

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• Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

  Natalie Kusz

  Family, Parent, Soul

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• If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Able, Christ

  Message for World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. February 22, 2009.

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• ...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Animal, Humanity, Lambs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Marta L. Werner (2005). “Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843”, p.7, American Philosophical Society

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• In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.

  Tertullian

  Men, Blood, Abortion

  "The Sacred Writings of Tertullian".

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• Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters

  Audre Lorde

  Creativity, Differences, Creative

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• ...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way. Because one of the great admonitions in the Good Book is, don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Book, Eye

  Ireland Radio and Television Interview, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 24, 2004.

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• Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

  Regis Debray

  Book

  Régis Debray (2004). “God: An Itinerary”, p.185, Verso

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• In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

  Asger Jorn

  Responsibility, Reflection, Years

  "On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: the Situationist International, 1957-1972" edited by Elisabeth Sussman, (p. 142), 1989.

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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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• Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.

  Horace Mann

  Taken, Borders, Literature

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.105

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• Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ties, Looks, Bread

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.141, Editora Dracaena

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• Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

  Veronica Roth

  Innovation, Doe, Protection

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• No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

  Andre Gide

  Book, Heart, Leaving

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• Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Grief

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