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«Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.»
«Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.»
«A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.»
«Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
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booze, consumes, Contests, dope, go ahead, issues, legged, Our Kind, PIE, pipe, pipe down, presidency, races, the presidency, three-legged
«HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. --Alexander Poke»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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austerity, consumes, crowds, gloom, his company, hoar, hog, humorists, persuaded, plague, poking, renewed, softened, stray, the humorist, untaught
«A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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blazed, blazes, causes, consumes, parents
«Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.»
«As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.»
«Like the mad dog running around in all directions, the greedy person, unaware, consumes everything, edible and non-edible alike. Engrossed in the intoxication of sexual desire and anger, people wander through reincarnation over and over again.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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consumes, edible, engrossed, greedy, intoxication, over and over, over and over again, sexual desire, unaware
«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
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