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«Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.»
Author: Howard Thurman
(Activist, Clergyman, Theologian)
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Community
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brothers, feed, feed on, flourish, The Coming, undiscovered
«I know how men in exile feed on dreams.»
«In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
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Mediocrity
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«Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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Cannibalism
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arouses, babies, Buddhist, Buddhists, cannibalism, disgust, feed, feed on, impression, strongly, Vegetarians
«And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.»
Author: Bible
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Bashan, Carmel, feed on, Gilead, habitation, Mount Carmel, Mount Ephraim, Mount Gilead
«Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.»
«We feed on genius; great men exist that there might be greater men.»
«It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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consumes, demonic, feed on, human flesh, imbibed, imbibes, inflicting, sustained
«Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Memory
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appetite, digestion, drop out, feed on, gluttonous, greediness, heed, purse, spoil, take heed, thereof
«Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief»
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