"Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away……" — Alan Weisman

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• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no… — Felix Adler
• The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. — Bill Bryson
• Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar… — John Jay Chapman
• I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to… — Kelly Clarkson
• [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
• All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for… — Eckhart Tolle
• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work… — H.G. Wells
• Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows… — William James
• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel… — Robert Collier
• The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we… — Andrew Weil
• I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality… — Og Mandino

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