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  • For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Carl Sagan After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Harry S. Truman Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • John Wesley Beware you be not swallowed up in books.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Josh Billings Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bob Kerrey Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Plato Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Barbara Amiel Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Al Goldstein Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Francis Bacon Some books are to be tasted, some to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
    Essays (1597)
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Harry S. Truman Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Hobbes For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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