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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.

PLUTARCH. 46(?)-120(?) A. D.     _Of Eating of Flesh. Tract 1._

My fancy makes me hate a man who breathes hard when he is eating. Fancy has great weight. Will you profit by yielding to this weight because it is natural? No; but by resisting it.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

In eating, after nature is once satisfied, every additional morsel brings stupidity and distempers with it.

_Goldsmith._

If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child’s hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids—without exception—were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away.

Kim Harrison

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Benjamin Franklin

Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2._

>Eating little and speaking little can never do harm.

Proverb.

Collective bargaining has become a dog chasing its own tail, with inflation eating up wage increases before workers ever get a chance to spend them. Even the union leaders who bring home the fattest contracts these days are concluding that some new stabilizing element is needed to keep the extra purchasing power from draining out of their members’ pay envelopes.[p]The welcome fruit of this discontent may be a growing concentration on wage plans geared to sharing efficiency, as measured by productivity or profits, in place of the sterile “battle for the buck.” [Labor Editor, New York Times ]

Raskin, A. H.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading.

_Fuller._

It is bitter fare eating one's own words.

_Dan. Pr._

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616.     _Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiv._

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

_Burke._

Part of me wishes I could see him; I want to make sure he's really going to be okay, that he's recovering well and eating enough and getting sleep at night. But another part of me is afraid to see him now. Because seeing Adam means saying good-bye. It means recognizing that I can't be with him anymore and knowing that I have to find a new life for myself. Alone.

Tahereh Mafi

I got to belch my witch; she’s done eating by now.

William Goldman

Post epulas stabis vel passus mille meabis=--After eating, you should either stand or walk a mile.

Proverb.

L'appetit vient en mangeant=--Appetite comes with eating, _i.e._, the more one has, the more one would have.

_Rabelais._

We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and complex social structures are huge advantages. It seems self-evident that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth. But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creatures. Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators, rarely hunted large game, and subsisted mainly by gathering plants, scooping up insects, stalking small animals, and eating the carrion left behind by other more powerful carnivores.

Yuval Noah Harari

Non in caro nidore voluptas / Summa, sed in teipso est, tu pulmentaria qu?re / Sudando=--The pleasure (in eating) does not lie in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Seek the relish, therefore, from hard exercise.

Horace.

We are not wearied of eating and sleeping every day, because hunger and drowsiness are renewed; without that we should be weary of them. Thus without the hunger of spiritual things we grow weary of them. Hunger after righteousness, the eighth beatitude.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Take it to the Streets “Pray continually”(1 Thessalonians 5:17). I’ve enjoyed walking since my youth and continue to enjoy it today as my number one cardiovascular activity. I find walking to be the most flexible and relaxing exercise. No special equipment or skills are needed – just a good pair of shoes and sensible clothing. It can be done anywhere and anytime with a friend or by myself. There can also be both spiritual and physical benefits by combining prayer with walking. What walking accomplishes in building a strong body, prayer achieves in building spiritual strength. Your body requires exercise and food, and it needs these things regularly. Once a week won’t suffice. Your spiritual needs are similar to your physical needs, and so praying once a week is as effective as eating once a week. The Bible tells us to pray continually in order to have a healthy, growing spiritual life. Prayer walking is just what it sounds like — simply walking and talking to God. Prayer walking can take a range of approaches from friends or family praying as they walk around schools, neighbourhoods, work places, and churches, to structured prayer campaigns for particular streets and homes. I once participated in a prayer walk in Ottawa where, as a group, we marched to Parliament Hill and prayed for our governments, provinces, and country. In the Bible, there are many references to walking while thinking and meditating on the things of God. Genesis 13:17 says, “Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.” The prophet Micah declared, “All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.” (Micah 4:5) And in Joshua 14:9 it says, “So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have

Kimberley Payne

Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them.

_R. Venning._

>Eating the bitter bread of banishment.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1._

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,-- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1701.     _OEdipus. Act iv. Sc. 1._

It's poor eating where the flavour of the meat lies in the cruets.

_George Eliot._

Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself on not picking a pocket? A thief who was trying to reform would.--_George MacDonald._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

[H]ere is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today’s industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way. [ Utopia or Oblivion. ] However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before. [ Utopia or Oblivion. ]

Fuller, Buckminster.

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston.

FRANCIS RABELAIS. 1495-1553.     _Works. Book i. Chap. v._

>Eating the bitter bread of banishment.

_Rich. II._, iii. 1.

From the direction he crawled after he was shot.' Mellas tossed the wallet down at Fitch. Then he dug into his pocket and pulled out the soldier's unit and rank patches. he looked at them, then at Fitch and Hawke, who were no longer eating. 'I let him crawl toward home with his guts hanging out.' He started sobbing. 'I just left him there.' Snot was streaming from his nose. 'I'm so sorry. I'm so fucking sorry.' His hands were now shaking with his body as he clenched the two pieces of cloth to his eyes.

Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn

If the invention of derivatives was the financial world's modernist dawn, the current crisis is unsettlingly like the birth of postmodernism. For anyone who studied literature in college in the past few decades, there is a weird familiarity about the current crisis: value, in the realm of finance capital, parallels the elusive nature of meaning in deconstrucitonism. According to Jacques Derrida, the doyen of the school, meaning can never be precisely located; instead, it is always 'deferred,' moved elsewhere, located in other meanings, which refer and defer to other meanings—a snake permanently and necessarily eating its own tail. This process is fluid and constant, but at moments the perpetual process of deferral stalls and collapses in on itself. Derrida called this moment an 'aporia,' from a Greek term meaning 'impasse.' There is something both amusing and appalling about seeing his theories acted out in the world markets to such cataclysmic effect.

John Lanchester

How wonderful a Teacher we have! Sometimes we seek Him in the house, but He is not there. We go forth seeking Him and find Him perhaps in the wilderness or on a mountain praying, or leading some poor blind man by the hand, or eating with publicans or sinners, or asleep in a storm or conversing with a Samaritan woman, or surrounded by wrathful men, or bearing a cross. It is not merely His words that instruct. His place, His occupation, His companions, His environment, His garment, His silence, His submission--all teem with instruction. And they that learn of Him are made like unto Him.--_George Bowen._

Various     Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

The Sin of Paradise was eating the tree of knowledge before the tree of life. Life must ever be first. Knowing and not being, hearing and not doing, admiring and not possessing, all are light without life.--_Selected._

Various     Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

I mean, I had my turtle Deckard, but his lifestyle consisted of sunbathing, eating goldfish, and—somehow I just knew this—silently judging me while I masturbated. I’d taken to covering his tank with a thin blanket, but still…he knew.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

>Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C.S. Lewis

Oh, but to get through this night. Why won’t sleep come? What’s bothering me here in the dark? It’s not the badgers, it’s not the snakes. What’s bothering me? Something darker is worrying a hole inside me—look how my legs are trembling. Stop moving, Tatiana. That’s how the carnivores find you, by the flash of life on your body, they find you and eat you while you sleep. Like venomous spiders, they’ll bite you first to lull you into sleep—you won’t even feel it—and then they will gnaw your flesh until nothing remains. But even the animals eating her alive was not the thing that worried the sick hole in Tatiana’s stomach as she lay in the leaves with her face hidden from the forest, with her arms over her head, in case anything decided to fall on her. She should’ve made herself a shelter but it got dark so fast, and she was so sure she would find the lake, she hadn’t been thinking of making herself more comfortable in the woods. She kept walking and walking, and then was downed and breathless and unprepared for pitch black night. To quell the terror inside her, to not hear her own voices, Tatiana whimpered. Lay and cried, low and afraid. What was tormenting her from the inside out? Was it worry over Marina? No... not quite. But close. Something about Marina. Something about Saika... Saika. The girl who caused trouble between Dasha and her dentist boyfriend, the girl who pushed her bike into Tatiana’s bike to make her fall under the tires of a downward truck rushing headlong... the girl who saw Tatiana’s grandmother carrying a sack of sugar and told her mother who told her father who told the Luga Soviet that Vasily Metanov harbored sugar he had no intention of giving up? The girl who did something so unspeakable with her own brother she was nearly killed by her own father’s hand—and she herself had said the boy got worse—and this previously unmentioned brother was, after all, dead. The girl who stood unafraid under rowan trees and sat under a gaggle of crows and did not feel black omens, the girl who told Tatiana her wicked stories, tempted Tatiana with her body, turned away from Marina as Marina was drowning...who turned Marina against Tatiana, the girl who didn’t believe in demons, who thought everything was all good in the universe, could she . . . What if...? What if this was not an accident? Moaning loudly, Tatiana turned away to the other side as if she’d just had a nightmare. But she hadn’t been dreaming. Saika took her compass and her knife. But Marina took her watch. And there it was. That was the thing eating up Tatiana from the inside out. Could Marina have been in on something like this? Twisting from side to side did not assuage her torn stomach, did not mollify her sunken heart. Making anguished noises, her eyes closed, she couldn’t think of fields, or Luga, or swimming, or clover or warm milk, anything. All good thoughts were drowned in the impossible sorrow. Could Marina have betrayed her?

Paullina Simons

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674.     _L'Allegro. Line 135._

My appetite comes to me while eating.

MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE. 1533-1592.     _Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity._

Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

_W. v. Humboldt._

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

Bhagavad Gita

At the foot of the mountain, thunder:

The image of Providing Nourishment.

Thus the superior man is careful of his words

And temperate in eating and drinking.

Fortune Cookie

The Great Movie Posters:

Different! Daring! Dynamic! Defying! Dumbfounding!

SEE Uncle Tom lead the Negroes to FREEDOM!

... Now, all the SENSUAL and VIOLENT passions Roots couldn't show on TV!

        -- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1972)

An appalling amalgam of carnage and carnality!

        -- Flesh and Blood Show (1973)

WHEN THE CATS ARE HUNGRY...

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Alone, only a harmless pet...

    One Thousand Strong, They Become a Man-Eating Machine!

        -- The Night of a Thousand Cats (1972)

They're Over-Exposed

But Not Under-Developed!

        -- Cover Girl Models (1976)

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    A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was eating</p>

his morning meal.  "I would like to give you this personality test", said

the outsider, "because I want you to be happy."

    Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the

toaster -- "I wish the toaster to be happy too".

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You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles.

        -- Miss Piggy, on eating Chinese Food

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If researchers wrote nursery rhymes...

Little Miss Muffet sat on her gluteal region,

>Eating components of soured milk.

On at least one occasion,

    along came an arachnid and sat down beside her,

Or at least in her vicinity,

And caused her to feel an overwhelming, but not paralyzing, fear,

Which motivated the patient to leave the area rather quickly.

        -- Ann Melugin Williams

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Now that you've read Fortune's diet truths, you'll be prepared the next

time some housewife or boutique-owner-turned-diet-expert appears on TV

to plug her latest book.  And, if you still feel a twinge of guilt for

>eating coffee cake while listening to her exhortations, ask yourself

the following questions:

    (1) Do I dare trust a person who actually considers alfalfa sprouts a

        food?

    (2) Was the author's sole motive in writing this book to get rich

        exploiting the forlorn hopes of chubby people like me?

    (3) Would a longer life be worthwhile if it had to be lived as

        prescribed ... without French-fried onion rings, pizza with

        double cheese, or the occasional Mai-Tai?  (Remember, living

        right doesn't really make you live longer, it just *seems* like

        longer.)

That, and another piece of coffee cake, should do the trick.

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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race,

in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

        -- Thoreau

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caterpallor, n.:

    The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're

>eating.

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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

        -- Miguel de Cervantes

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Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.

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The Kosher Dill was invented in 1723 by Joe Kosher and Sam Dill.  It is

the single most popular pickle variety today, enjoyed throughout the free

world by man, woman and child alike.  An astounding 350 billion kosher

dills are eaten each year, averaging out to almost 1/4 pickle per person

per day.  New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton says "The kosher dill

really changed my life.  I used to enjoy eating McDonald's hamburgers and

drinking Iron City Lite, and then I encountered the kosher dill pickle.

I realized that there was far more to haute cuisine then I'd ever imagined.

And now, just look at me."

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>Eating chocolate is like being in love without the aggravation.

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RULES OF EATING -- THE BRONX DIETER'S CREED

    (1)  Never eat on an empty stomach.

    (2)  Never leave the table hungry.

    (3)  When traveling, never leave a country hungry.

    (4)  Enjoy your food.

    (5)  Enjoy your companion's food.

    (6)  Really taste your food.  It may take several portions to

         accomplish this, especially if subtly seasoned.

    (7)  Really feel your food.  Texture is important.  Compare,

         for example, the texture of a turnip to that of a

         brownie.  Which feels better against your cheeks?

    (8)  Never eat between snacks, unless it's a meal.

    (9)  Don't feel you must finish everything on your plate.  You

         can always eat it later.

    (10) Avoid any wine with a childproof cap.

    (11) Avoid blue food.

        -- Richard Smith, "The Bronx Diet"

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The boy stood on the burning deck,

>Eating peanuts by the peck.

His father called him, but he could not go,

For he loved those peanuts so.

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There's nothing like the face of a kid eating a Hershey bar.

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Just a few of the perfect excuses for having some strawberry shortcake.

Pick one.

     (1)    It's less calories than two pieces of strawberry shortcake.

     (2)    It's cheaper than going to France.

     (3)    It neutralizes the brownies I had yesterday.

     (4)    Life is short.

     (5)    It's somebody's birthday.  I don't want them to celebrate alone.

     (6)    It matches my eyes.

     (7)    Whoever said, "Let them eat cake." must have been talking to me.

     (8)    To punish myself for eating dessert yesterday.

     (9)    Compensation for all the time I spend in the shower not eating.

    (10)    Strawberry shortcake is evil.  I must help rid the world of it.

    (11)    I'm getting weak from eating all that healthy stuff.

    (12)    It's the second anniversary of the night I ate plain broccoli.

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I don't have an eating problem.  I eat.  I get fat.  I buy new clothes.

No problem.

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"Every Solidarity center had piles and piles of paper .... everyone was

>eating paper and a policeman was at the door.  Now all you have to do is

bend a disk."

- an anonymous member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity,

  commenting on the benefits of using computers in support of their movement

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Every Solidarity center had piles and piles of paper ... everyone was

>eating paper and a policeman was at the door.  Now all you have to do is

bend a disk.

        -- A member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity,

           commenting on the benefits of using computers in support

           of their movement.

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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing,

the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its

own capacity. ...  Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god

of the Northern Ocean, happened once to meet in the realm of Chaos, the god

of the center.  Chaos treated them very handsomely and they discussed together

what they could do to repay his kindness.  They had noticed that, whereas

everyone else had seven apertures, for sight, hearing, eating, breathing and

so on, Chaos had none.  So they decided to make the experiment of boring holes

in him.  Every day they bored a hole, and on the seventh day, Chaos died.

        -- Chuang Tzu

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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

        -- Gen. C. Abrams

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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings, or eating with

chopsticks.  It looks easy until you try it.

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<hop_> i had something that i think was chicken that was coated with a red

       paste that seemed to be composed of lye based on how much of my

       tounge it burned away.

<hop_> our friend who is Indian said this is why most Indians are thin

       and i quote "It doesn't take very much of this food to get you

       satisfied enoguh to stop eating."

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The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later

you're hungry again.

        -- George Miller

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after

>eating one peanut.

        -- Channing Pollock

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A book is the work of a mind, doing its work in the way that a mind deems

best.  That's dangerous.  Is the work of some mere individual mind likely to

serve the aims of collectively accepted compromises, which are known in the

schools as 'standards'?  Any mind that would audaciously put itself forth to

work all alone is surely a bad example for the students, and probably, if

not downright antisocial, at least a little off-center, self-indulgent,

elitist.  ... It's just good pedagogy, therefore, to stay away from such

stuff, and use instead, if film-strips and rap-sessions must be

supplemented, 'texts,' selected, or prepared, or adapted, by real

professionals.  Those texts are called 'reading material.'  They are the

academic equivalent of the 'listening material' that fills waiting-rooms,

and the 'eating material' that you can buy in thousands of convenient eating</p>

resource centers along the roads.

        -- The Underground Grammarian

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