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Steven Levenkron has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's…
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Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of…
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Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
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She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic…
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She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the…
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Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go.…
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How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.
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Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the…
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Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat…
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She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp.…
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She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity…
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The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In…
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal…
— Murray Rothbard
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
— Dante Alighieri
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Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to…
— James Taranto
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A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any…
— Randy Wayne White
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Right is its own defense.
— Bertolt Brecht
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In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.
— Christopher Meloni
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I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.
— Janet Evanovich
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The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In…
— Steven Levenkron
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In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause…
— Al Sharpton
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Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it…
— Lester B. Pearson
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