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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

~Adam Davidson

Topics: American American Culture Been Began Century Culture Day Deep Department Early Equivalent Gluttony Holiday Parades Roots Since Spending Sponsor Stores Thanksgiving Turkey 20Th Century

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Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Answer Cheat Dollars Even Evidence Executive Fraud Gluttony Habitual Helps Lavish Lifestyles Make Making Millions Millions Of Dollars More Motive Often Provide Sometimes Tens Tens Of Millions Used Why Wonder Would

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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Gluttony Wasteful Wrong

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I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Access Always Because Colours Denied Gluttony Heaven Listen Music Number Own Passion Types Vice Will Cds

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Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.

~Apollonius Of Tyana

Topics: Cares Cause Diseases Festivals Gluttony Increase Lighten Since

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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

~Dave Mustaine

Topics: Bible Books Cite Covers Deadly Enlightenment Envy Everything Fun Gluttony Greed Help Lust Matter Much Other Pretty Pride Self Seven Several Sinful Sins Sloth Wrath

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I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

~Fergie

Topics: Bean Bell Cheese Currently Extra Famous Fast-Food Gluttony Green Obsessed Places Sauce Taco

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I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them.

~Geoffrey Boycott

Topics: Circumstances Close Concentrate Conscious Conscious Effort Could County Effort Gluttony Half Hour Long Long Periods Longer Make Minutes Most Myself Net Nets Periods Practice Real Real Thing Reason So-Called Stay Stick Than Them Thing Time Tried Would

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