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• Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.

  Robert Hughes

  Drawing, Desire, Skins

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity" by Robert Hughes, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2004.

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• As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

  Akhenaton

  Men, Endurance, Hunger And Thirst

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• Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.

  Jose Serrano

  Needs, Program, Nations

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• We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

  Alexandra Paul

  Country, Children, Rich Countries

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• It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Bill Johnson (2013). “When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.18, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

  John Piper

  Bread Of Life, Cost, Kingdoms

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• Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

  Christopher Morley

  Poetry, Together, Sitting Down

  Christopher Morley (1931). “John Mistletoe”, Doubleday, Doran

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• Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

  John Piper

  Christian, Roots, Fasting

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• That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

  Lord Byron

  Food, People, Feds

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.241, Routledge

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• The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

  Virgil

  Gold, Fame, Cursed

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• Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

  David Mitchell

  Smart, Heart, Miracle

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.276, Random House Group

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• Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

  David Mitchell

  Humans

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• Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Soul

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• Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

  Christopher Morley

  Philosophy, Rain, People

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• You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Encouragement, Real

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• From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

  Andrew Davies

  Drama, Moving, Thinking

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• The accursed hunger for gold.

  Virgil

  Gold

  Virgil (1993). “Vergilius”

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• A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Hunger And Poverty

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.304, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

  John Gay

  Powerful, Sea, Fishing

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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• The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century

  Caroline Alexander

  Believe, Passion, Discovery

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• To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Sweat, Sailing

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• Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.

  Frank Capra

  Spiritual, Prayer, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

  Dionne Warwick

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Badass, People, Brave

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• It's more for me as with going into a forest: if you sit quietly for a long time, the life around you emerges. As the world grows ever more clamorous, my hunger for silence steepens. I unplug the landline.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Long, Silence, Forests

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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