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Letter "C" » consuming
«Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
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Biographer,
Educator,
Mathematician,
Writer)
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Keywords:
consuming,
famine,
feast,
finality,
imagines,
impel,
impelling,
impels,
nevertheless,
uncritical
«A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.»
«A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.»
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Keywords:
absorbing,
against the rules,
battling,
consuming,
debilitates,
debilitating,
exhausted,
fulfilled,
hugely,
population,
regimentation,
vulnerable
«I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(
Author)
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Keywords:
alarmed,
alarming,
alienate,
alienated,
avenue,
avenues,
Avenue of,
consuming,
cynical,
extent,
Hollywood,
kid,
Madison,
peering,
peers,
planet,
poised,
raised,
resource,
take over,
take over the world,
The Alarm,
The Avenue
«More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.»
Author: Dave Barry
(
Humorist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Coming out,
consumer,
consumers,
consuming,
designed,
fiercely,
gnaw,
gnawed,
gnawing,
gnaws,
gnaw at,
item,
more and more,
out in,
packaged,
packaging,
prevent,
products,
protective,
These Days
«Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.»
«If a smoker blows air on a white handkerchief, he will find yellow spots on it. This is a sign of disease. Smoking leads to cancer. Drinking is a demonic quality. It makes you intoxicated and to forget yourself. Consuming non-vegetarian food is also a bad quality.»
«Man degrades himself by consuming intoxicating drinks and non-vegetarian food and by indulging in smoking. These noxious habits affect the brain also.»
«Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which, if not fed, expires, And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires»
«Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.»