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• The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Lying, Gold, Saint

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• The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

  Saint Basil

  Shoes, Saint, Naked

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• The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

  Pythagoras

  Mother, Sorry, Philosophical

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• You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

  Will Rogers

  Dog, America, Bones

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Population Problem, Decision

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.42, Best Books on

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• Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Redemption, Charity

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, www.theguardian.com. 1485.

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• God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Religious, Love You, Hug

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• Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Law, No Respect

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.13, Ravenio Books

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• Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Men, White Man

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110, 1863.

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• In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.

  Pope Paul VI

  Lonely, America, Self

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• Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.

  Tom McCall

  Thinking, Oregon, Play

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• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Sweet, Thinking, Tree

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latin, Rain, Land

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• I'm very fond of food. I get hungry, and I like to eat almost all the time.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women

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• The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

  John Milton

  Sheep, Looks, Look Up

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

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• Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.

  Ani DiFranco

  Expression, Someday, Said

  Song: 32 Flavors

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• The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.

  Ben Schwartz

  Knowing, Anxiety, Gigs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it and I need to be hungry.

  Clare Balding

  Needs, Good Food, Enjoy

  "Clare Balding: 'It's unfashionable to be as shamelessly enthusiastic as I am'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2012.

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• A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Hunger, Free Man

  "Hunger battle on food summit menu". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2002.

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• I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

  Tony Wheeler

  Bored, Hot, May

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• When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

  Chinua Achebe

  Fighting, Men, Coward

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 09, 2016

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

  Peter Hedges

  Mother, Running, People

  Peter Hedges (1999). “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• A sob caught in my chest. I didn't even know what a gray was, other than a drab color. All I knew was that I was hungry all the time. And I knew, deep down, that it wasn't just for food.

  Michelle Rowen

  Color, Caught, Gray

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• I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself.

  Deborah Feldman

  Lord

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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