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• God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!

  Chip Ingram

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Science, Generations, Machines

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• Half a loaf is better than no bread.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Gratitude, Half

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

  Ricardo Flores Magon

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Order

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• And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Government, Firsts

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

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• For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

  Paracelsus

  Country, Wine, Meat

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

  Tryon Edwards

  Death, May, Moments

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1004, Ravenio Books

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• God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

  Mother Teresa

  Compassion, People, Giving

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

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• Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Humanity, Secret

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• Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

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• Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Views, Belief, Chasing

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• To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

  John Irving

  Family, Nice, Food

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Egypt, People, Democracy

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• Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Men, Might

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.112, John Wiley & Sons

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• In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

  Anna Quindlen

  People, Meat, Sandwiches

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.239, Ballantine Books

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• Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Vocabulary, English Language

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• The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

  Simone Weil

  Faith, Lying, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

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• One may live without bread, not without roses.

  Jean Richepin

  Flower, Food, Rose

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• If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

  Don King

  Boxing, Water, Cash

  "Don King sounds off on boxing". "Crossfire" with James Carville and Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2002.

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• Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

  John A. Hannah

  Inspirational, Education, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Army was my bread and butter.

  Brian Lumley

  Army, Bread And Butter

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• For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Years, Bed, Bags

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• A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

  Cat Stevens

  Thieves, Stealing, Famine

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

  Norman Jewison

  Italian, Film, Adaptation

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

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• Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

  Conrad Aiken

  Music, Beautiful, Broke

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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