"I own things I like, but nothing inanimate……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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• The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work… — Bruce Barton
• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn
• What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how… — Julie Burchill
• If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that… — Buzz Aldrin
• The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their… — Jarvis Cocker
• All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the… — Gaylord Nelson
• A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
• ... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing… — Clay Shirky
• Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical… — Frances M. Young
• The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed. — Ronnie Lott

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