Quotes: feeding
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Be it furniture, clothes, or health care, many industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities - no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers.
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B. F. Skinner
American psychologist, behaviorist and author
1904-1990
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.
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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
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Ralph Nader
American political activist, author and attorney
1934-
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Sinclair Lewis
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
1885-1951
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
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Edward M. Forster
English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist
1879-1970
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.
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The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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