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• Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Corn, Week, Alms

  Francis Henry Cripps-Day, Walter de Henley, Jacques Bellot, Robert Grosseteste (1931). “The manor farm”

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• I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

  Jesse Jackson

  Long Ago, Water, Sides

  1984 Addressing black voters, NewYork, 30 Jan.

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• Man lives for science as well as bread.

  William James

  Science, Men, Scientist

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Jugs, Great Wine

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• The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

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• If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

  Jose Marti

  Life Lesson, Bread Of Life, Doors

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

  Paracelsus

  Skills, Preparation, Praying

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

  Charlie Sheen

  News, Paramedics, Wanted

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

  Emily Post

  Shoes, Essentials, Hats

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• Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Meat, Sugar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

  Carmen McRae

  Inspirational, Music, Yeast

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• I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Eggs, Cheese

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.73

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• I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

  Clay Aiken

  Nice, Hands, Leaving

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• Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;
  And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,
  But has not answer'd like the apparatus
  Of the Humane Society's beginning,
  By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
  What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Men, Machines

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Better is half a loaf than no bread.

  John Heywood

  Food, Half

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.334

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• No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

  Hank Ketcham

  Turkeys

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• Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Luxury, Giving, Would Be

  "Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author".

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• A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

  Lewis Carroll

  Oysters, Needs, Vinegar

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.29, PDFreeBooks.org

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• I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?

  John Lennon

  Baby, Jesus, Jobs

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• If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Sports

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2010

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• Acorns were good until bread was found.

  Francis Bacon

  Food, Progress, Acorns

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• People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

  James A. Baldwin

  Respect, People, Water

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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• Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Half, Literature

  1910 What's Wrong with the World, ch.3.

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• I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

  Mick Jagger

  Way, Kind, Wanted

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