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The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.
Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
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There he died; and as thou seest me, saw
I the three fall one by one, between the fifth
day and the sixth: whence I betook me,
already blind, to groping over each, and for
three days called them, after they were dead;
then fasting had more power than grief.
Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
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In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.
Upton Sinclair, American writer (1878–1968)
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