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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
— Warren Buffett
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And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
— Immanuel Kant
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
— Jonathan Swift
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;…
— Francis Bacon
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being…
— Bertrand Russell
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Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
— Marcus Aurelius
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
— Livy
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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
— Galileo Galilei
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