There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
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Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
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Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.
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Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!
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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
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I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
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Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
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The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.
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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
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Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
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I don't believe in dieting.
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Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.
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The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
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Dieting is wishful shrinking.
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Dieters -- People that are thick and tired of it
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Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
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Nothing arouses more hope than the first four hours of a diet.
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