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feeding on

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If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it. Dwight L. Moody

Listen up-there's no war that will end all wars,' Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that. Haruki Murakami

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape. Michel Chossudovsky

It seems to be a social axiom that as misery and privation increase for the many, the few rise ever higher in luxury and comfort, feeding on the misery. Not aware, perhaps, that they feed upon the misery, not with any wish of feeding on it-but they do. Clifford D. Simak

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you. Anaïs Nin

A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass. Hindi Proverb

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