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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

—Gerald R. Ford

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Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

—Robert Rice

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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

—Eric Sevareid

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Man does not live by bread alone, but he also does not live long without it.

—Frederick Buechner

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Man does not live by bread alone.

—Moses

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Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. I think every woman should be fat like me.

—Roseanne Barr

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You can never get enough of what you don't really want.

—Eric Hoffer

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Eating is never so simple as hunger.

—Erica Jong

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If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.

—Maria Augusta Trapp

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The toughest part of being on a diet is shutting up about it.

—Gerland Nachman

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

—Bertolt Brecht

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Love without conversation is impossible.

—Mortimer Adler

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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

—Bill Gates

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Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory.

—Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement

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