#digest

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. ↗

— Ted Koppel

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Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best. ↗

— Mary Webb

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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred. ↗

— Michael Behe

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How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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Music is the best means we have of digesting time. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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