"Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat."
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"Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!"
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"Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms."
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"Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar."
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"Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace."
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"The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material in the living hepatic tissue. The second entirely chemical action, which can be effected outside the influence of life, consists in the transformation of the glycogenic material into sugar by means of a ferment."
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"NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar."
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"Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense."
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"You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs."
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"DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT."
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"Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs."
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"there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars."
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"Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think."
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"It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses."
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"The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—"
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"You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain."
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"A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it."
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"Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary."
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"I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper."
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