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Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.


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Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies ...
JOHN QUINTON Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies...
QUINTILIAN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK The boys are cuddly. They like their stomachs scratched.
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MARTIN REES We are running out of food, running out of supplies, and are finding it extremely difficult to find ...
GEORGE HOOD We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
WESTON LA BARRE We would like to deal with this firmly based upon our basic recognition that both...the nuclear non-...
SHINZO ABE These men are the people many in our society honor and celebrate. They are not being charged with an...
ART LEACH Our minds are full of different ideas to change the world,but we limit our ability to let our minds ...
MASHUKUDU MALEFO Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by...
JONATHAN SWIFT You can't remain in a state of sheer panic and terror indefinitely, and both had run their course. E...
SAROO BRIERLEY The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and t...
ANNALEE NEWITZ Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are depend...
JIM DEMINT Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Sayin...
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
JOHN DRYDEN Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
DIANE ARBUS The advertising is starting to move us in the right direction. We are seeing good returns in terms o...
IAN ROWDEN Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.
GALIT BREEN We've been given special permission from the Coast Guard to sail with supplies to areas that are sti...
DON TIPTON There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes...
JON KABAT-ZINN You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that ...
JOHN STEINBECK We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
KEVIN KELLY The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be,...
LEONARD MLODINOW Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of ...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S The Patriot Act would have saved 3,000 lives, and what's scary about that is once they start tinkeri...
DEBRA BURLINGAME Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scient...
DAVID J. ANDERSON Women's sexual appetites are steeped more in the realm of fantasy -- they like to use their imaginat...
ASSIA TSCHERNOOKOFF Fresh, organic, cage-free eggs that slip right out of the shell are a versatile gift of the food wor...
SUZANNE SOMERS We are the Accumulation of All our Experiences. The Richness and Happiness of our Lives is determine...
LORRIN L. LEE With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconne...
DENISE MORRISON LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically s...
HENRY FIELDING In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are in a serious situation now, where both the environment and our water supplies are at risk. Gr...
BARBARA YOUNG Secrets are a part of life. Their mysteries make our world beautiful. Their depths inspire our heart...
IMANIA MARGRIA We went through this a few years ago from Charlotte to New Orleans and a lot of the things are still...
JEFF BOWER The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner ...
WILLIAM JAMES Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitud...
MARILYN FERGUSON Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited...
JOSEPH BUTLER why must we reform to a dying society where the child once ran naked and free we are killing our chi...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
JAMESON FRANK The war is always the same, only the names and places change. There are demons upon this earth. They...
A.G. RIDDLE As far as the food supply is concerned, we are very confident that we will reach everybody with suff...
KASHIF MURTAZA Many of our core items are made fresh. Our chicken, eggplant and veal parmesan are all made fresh da...
CHRISTIAN COUGHLIN The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandis...
ERIC HOFFER Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We've doubled the amount of food points-of-service at our building here and added more variety in fo...
BRIANA MACKEY It will be a problem because if people are living in cold weather with inadequate food supplies they...
RACHEL LAVY People are really hungry for change, and we need to give them something to hang that change on. The ...
MARK MCKINNON Founders never leave our memories for they leave indelible footprints on our minds. They give us the...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy...
BUDDHA The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no ...
CHUCK SCHUMER More importantly, it is difficult to study minds because we are mental beings. We have our own minds...
JAMES KENNEDY The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitud...
MARILYN FERGUSON The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
DR. PAUL TOURNIER The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
PAUL TOURNIER The hardest battles in life are fought in our minds and won with our heart.
NAVRAS NEGATIVEONE We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experienc...
WILLIAM OSLER Back when I was in school, one of our goals in food science was expanding the food supply by taking ...
DANIEL FLETCHER Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
OVID About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. Britis...
ARTHUR POTTS DAWSON When we open our hearts and minds to our "Inner Sun" we are fully purified by the radiance of it's l...
ANGIE KARAN Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status upda...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our...
DALE CARNEGIE We've got a group of (U.S.) guys now who are colorful, smart, eloquent when they speak and are perfo...
ADAM NELSON The help we provide them is with our food stamp program, and if they are here and they don't have ac...
GWEN ROBINSON Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this,’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount o...
ARUNDHATI ROY We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep...
ERICH FROMM We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sle...
ERICH FROMM Teenagers are trying to keep their weight down or they don't like the taste of milk. They often stop...
LYNDA MEZANSKY Most fresh-water fish eat water fleas at some point in their lives. They are an important food sourc...
DEREK J. TAYLOR In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by ...
DAVID BLAINE This will encourage more to visit the county and to purchase more of our wonderful food and drink pr...
MALCOLM BELL That statement gives grounds to our concerns on the growing foreign dependency of European energy su...
FERRAN TARRADELLAS ESPUNY Both players are more than deserving of the honors they received. We are proud of Billy and Wyle for...
DAVID ARNOLD They go to holy places for a bath, Their minds are impure and bodies are like thieves; If by bath th...
GURU NANAK Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, b...
GEORGE GILDER This is an example of this change and the fear that it puts in the hearts and minds of independent p...
CASSANDRA PHELPS The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabric...
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL We're having as much difficulty reaching (the disaster areas) as anyone, but we have eight trained p...
CAROL LEE Mature minds never get occupied by others until and unless they are influenced by their own misconce...
MUHAMMAD RAFIQ KHAN KAKAR Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
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DEYTH BANGER We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our lo...
MAEVE BINCHY Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at s...
MIKE FITZPATRICK None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.
DEBASISH MRIDHA There are the families that we are born into, and there are the families that we choose our circle o...
PROVERB We don’t vanish without a trace. We are not like animals, content with burrows in the ground. We a...
JENNIFER ARNETT If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree, How will their...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All cages and runs are cleaned daily with an antiseptic. The cat litter boxes are changed and cats a...
DORIS BIRNBAUM Feast of Matthias the Apostle In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked to...
A. LEONARD GRIFFITH Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, chi...
GEORGE ELIOT

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QUINTILIAN While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QUINTILIAN When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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QUINTILIAN When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIAN The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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QUINTILIAN Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
QUINTILIAN Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
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QUINTILIAN While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin
QUINTILIAN Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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