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«Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.»
«A mind grows by what it feeds on.»
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland | Keywords: feeds
«As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our»
«Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.»
«Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.»
Author: Susan Sontag (Activist, Critic, Writer) | Keywords: feeds
«A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.»
«EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his _glutoeus maximus_.»
«Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: after death, envy, feeds, protects, rests
«And where two waging fires meet togetherThey do consume the thing that feeds their fury.Though little fire grows great with little wind,Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.»
«An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last»

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