Greed and its punishment is everywhere, whether it's Violet Beauregarde swelling up into a blueberry in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory or the child in Matilda who is forced to eat a whole chocolate cake.
To its detractors, their very multiplicity shows the Third Way's fundamental hollowness: a doctrine that says you can have your cake and eat it too is a recipe for ducking every hard decision.
So people, a lot of times, if they want to eat chocolate-chip cookies or birthday cake, they have a recipe book that tells them how to do that, where they might not have a recipe book for the master cleanse diet, or for Ratatouille, for that matter.
Using the new method you could have your cake and eat it, by designing a strong core to a structure that has a weaker, temperature-resistant surface, he says.
They would bring me a piece of cake and solemnly watch me eat it.
It was very much a case of wanting both the cake and to eat the brioche at the same time.
Actually, they simply want to have their cake and eat it too: they dream of a way out of a crisis generated by an excess of public debt that does not entail a retrenchment of government activities.
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You can (a) have your cake, (b) eat it, too, and (c) not pay taxes until later.
"The crossover market is a great example of how consumers can have their cake and eat it too, " he says.
The moral case, although easy to sympathise with, is a way of trying to have one's cake and eat it.
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Hence the search for a creative formula to allow the Senate to have its cake and eat it.
You give people a lot of cake and ice cream, they're going to eat it.
The firm is a master of the "have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too" brand of politics and public relations.
Conservation easements offer a neat way for wealthy environmentalists like Bacon to have their cake and eat it, too.
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But don't most of play along with the fiction that if we eat one of these bars, we can indulge ourselves later in a slice of cheese cake?
Here, cool young things eat from a brief, weekly-changing menu (vividly green foraged herb soup, almond cake with spruce ice cream) under a vaulted, peeling ceiling.
"Notre Dame wanted to have its cake and eat it, too, " Gee said, according to the recording and a copy of the meeting's minutes.
As Clinton ate cake this past weekend, she should have been thinking of ways not to punish everyday Koreans for a government they didn't vote for but to help them one day be able to eat cake too.
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