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At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." ~ (c. 1515-1580), author 'The Farmer's Daily Diet'. ↗

— Thomas Tusser

#diet

If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned. ↗

— Kris Carr

#diet

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means. ↗

— Maimonides

#any #disease #means #other #should

But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do. ↗

— Diet Eman

#dutch #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. For two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. Maybe he got a whiff of Mabel's finest, he wasn't sure, but a craving came over him. Suddenly, he had to have something to eat. Suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from Kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake. ↗

— John Grisham

#fruitcake #humor #humour #skipping-christmas #diet

Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’ Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book ↗

— Steve Jobs

#ataris #computer #steve-jobs #walter-isaacson #diet

I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man. ↗

— Charles Portis

#diet #heaven #repent #sins #diet

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#about #anxiety #better #call #disease

Wearing that personal trainer nametag doesn't make you right #AHOLE ↗

— Andy Ostrom

#exercise #funny #humor #life #workout

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Not for nothing does Amazon.com include diet and exercise books on its "Religion and Spirituality" bestseller list. ....) ↗

— Ross Douthat

#exercise #puritanical #purity #vanity #yoga