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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

—A. Whitney Brown

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Ignoring things didn’t make them go away. It only made it harder to face them when they finally came around.

—A. Meredith Walters in Light in the Shadows

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

—Erich Fromm

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

—Christopher Morley

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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

—James Madison

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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

—Samuel Johnson

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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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