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Ketoacidosis is prevented by negative feedback. Ketone bodies inhibit fatty acid production and also promote release of insulin which, in turn, inhibits lipolysis.

You meant so much to me ... that I couldn't even say I love you.

Depriving someone of their freedom is the most despicable act imaginable. Anyone guilty of it should be BURIED so they can rot and be reincarnated ...

She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid boundaries ...

For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it.

Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast ... We have to change.

If you don't think about death, you don't appreciate life.

Life isn't about what you can see, it's about what you know and believe.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the ...

I flamed amazement

I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I ...

More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.

Young people with terminal illnesses develop a whimsical, slightly sarcastic sense of humor about it to put everyone else at ease and to serve as ...

And when I found out they had, I came back. What do you think I was doing at the alliance?" "Having drinks, by the looks ...

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my ...

You are encased in my heart.

The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There ...

Say: maybe not in these words; maybe not in words at all, but in the purer language of thought; but yes, certainly, this is what ...

Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of the ...

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

What I tend to tell my students is, "When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, ...

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating ... yet so joyous.

As he walked along, consciously enjoying the early coolness of the morning, he turned and looked behind him. People often do this and are usually ...

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

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

The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity.

A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to see if it ...

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

People work much in order to secure the future; I gave my mind much work and trouble, trying to secure the past.

I love oral hygiene.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, ...

We kept my middle schooler home from school for three days before we turned in our final draft because she was so mean and so ...

I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this psychedelic style of ...

Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting ...

I sat down with little time to prepare for my back being ambushed by the wintry digits otherwise known as Tetra's toes.

Tonight I am all in flames.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. ...

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my ...

The beans are done when at least five of them taste tender and are cooked through. One bean can be a fucking liar so taste ...

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his ...

Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I ... see ... you."A bright spark ...

There is something very unhealthy about Christianity.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator ... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going ...

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

If the Empire would destroy a world as important and prosperous as Alderaan ... no place in the galaxy was safe.

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We ...

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

I had more wealth, indeed, than I had before, but was not at all the richer; for I had no more use for it than ...

It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth.

Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?

I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping ...

When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it ...

You own the first day of your life. You own the last. And you own everything in between.

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make ...

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than ...

I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette ...

You never know what somebody might tell you,' Chris said, 'when they think you're somebody else.

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

Come on, Forney.'Novalee, it's a parasite.'But it's a tradition.'It's a parasite! And you expect people to stand under it and kiss?'Yes! it's what people do ...

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to ...

Pritkin might be a hostile son of a bitch, but he was a damn good guy to have in a fight.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if ...

I do not remember a time when I could not read, nor any time when reading was not a joy and a solace.

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra ...

This man was no pampered gentleman, born to a life of softness. No, this man was a brawler, a scrapper, a street fighter. A survivor.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If ...

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but ...

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're ...

I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we ...

Reality has a pulse, a rhythm, for lack of better words.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never ...

When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This ...

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to ...

Somebody should tell Jerry Falwell that God is an Independent ... he's not rich enough to be a Republican.

No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always ...

Whether or not he was in it, whether or not he could see or touch it, he'd thought there would always be a FIllory out ...

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

The way I remember it the tribe got paid some huge amount.""That's what they said to him. He said, What can you pay for the ...

I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know ...

What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see ...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is ...

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined ...

My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on ...

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look ...