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«Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing themselves,what they losethrough respiration, the lamp would very soon run out of oil and the animal would perish, just as the lamp goes out when it lacks fuel.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
fuel, goes out, habitually, lacks, lamp, nourishing, replace, respiration, run out, The Animal, transport, transported, transporting, transports
«A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.»
Author: Fernando Botero
(Artist)
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bison, caves, cave man, compensate, era, landscape, nourishing, oases, oasis, painted, prehistoric, rudeness, scrawl, scrawled, scrawls, sensual
«A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence.»
Author: Holbrook Jackson
(Author, Editor, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bouquet, bouquets, greedy, imbibe, imbibed, Marcel Proust, nourishing, Proust, quietness, rooms, saturate, saturated, succulent
«To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.»
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
| Keywords:
approval, candy, Candy From a, cotton, cotton candy, encourages, nourishing, pursuing, record, resting, sanctuaries, sanctuary, striving, track, track record, True Value, uncertain, value judgment, withdrawing, withdrawn, withdraws
«And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.»
«One, who does not cast evil eyes on her 'own' house... who does not have malevolence towards her husband... giver of joy....seeker of family's welfare...who treads on the righteous path... gives happiness to all... serves all... gives birth to good sons... keeps her brother-in-laws satisfied and gives nourishing food...May such a wife help us attain prosperity.»
«The earth, upon whom the forest-sprung trees ever stand firm, the all-nourishing, compact earth, do we invoke.»
«Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
axe, bread, nourishing, sliced, slices, slicing
«I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.»
«Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bare, bosomed, naked, nodded, nodding, nods, nourishing, South, south wind, summer, winds
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