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• There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

  George Eliot

  Reading, Able, Hunger

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6603, Delphi Classics

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• Hungry bellies have no ears.
  [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Ears, Hunger, Belly

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• It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Men, Important

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• We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Night, Two, Islands

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• The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Spiritual, Age

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• In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Hunger, Stealing, These Days

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
  [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

  Juvenal

  Heaven, Greek, Hunger

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• If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

  Mother Teresa

  God, People, Giving

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• I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.

  Clifford Stoll

  Real, People, Community

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• I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

  Dolly Parton

  Book, Kids, Information

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• The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

  Simone Weil

  Compassion, Contemplation, Feeding

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• What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

  Samuel Richardson

  Luxury, Affluence, Drink

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.80

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• I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Hunger

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• If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Food, Men

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• Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Elderly, Example

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Childhood”

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• Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!

  Barbara Johnson

  Naked, Way, Forgotten

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.127, Zondervan

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• We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.

  Faith Popcorn

  Hands, Popcorn, Humans

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• Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Prayer, Heart, Two

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• He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

  John Arbuthnot

  Agriculture, Harvest, Grain

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Heart, Artist, Chance

  Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”

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• Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Coats, Cold, Reach Out

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• An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  People, Intellectual, Culture

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.231, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

  Ben Horowitz

  Technique, Succeed, Losing

  "Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People" by Ben Horowitz, a16z.com. April 15, 2013.

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• [On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Land, Giving

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