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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides hi

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. – Josh Billings

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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. – Josh Billings

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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, Heres another thing I get to do to help myself. Great! – Greg Anderson

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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Diets and Dieting

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. – Jean Baudrillard

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