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- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson
- The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success… — John Burroughs
- In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment,… — Pope Francis
- I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are… — Rachel McAdams
- Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism… — Mark Carney
- Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch
- I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up… — William J. Clinton
- Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your… — Saint Peter
- Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath… — Thomas Nashe