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• Hope is the poor man's bread.

  George Herbert

  Life, Hope, Food

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

  John Goodman

  Nice, Creative, Needs

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• What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Rose, Ballots, Workers

  "Strikes were a part of Women's Day before. With Trump, they will be again" by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2017.

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• Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

  D. W Brogan

  Life, Food, Men

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• I like reality. It tastes like bread.

  Jean Anouilh

  Reality, Taste

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• Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

  Thomas Hood

  Struggle, Blood, Flesh

  'The Song of the Shirt' (1843)

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• Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

  Eric Gill

  Science, Men, Doe

  Eric Gill (1944). “It All Goes Together: Selected Essays”

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• The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

  Hannah More

  Education, Thinking, Laziness

  Hannah More (1843). “Works, Complete”, p.337

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• We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Protection, Provision

  "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I know on which side my bread is buttered.

  John Heywood

  Food, Sides, Knows

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.86

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• The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Charity, Ends

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• Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education.

  Muhammad Ali

  Knowledge, Science, College

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• Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Book, Honey

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

  George Herbert

  Smell, Taste, Salt

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• We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

  Jose Marti

  Light, May, Ovens

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

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• I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Uplifting, Memorial Day

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• If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

  Jacques Pepin

  Beats, Extraordinary, Hard

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• If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Fitness, Running, Exercise

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• There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Hunger For Love, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Libertarian Party, Democracies Have

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• Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Individuality, Doe

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

  Leigh Hunt

  Morning, Food, World

  Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”, p.27

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