“ I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. ”
- Benjamin Harrison- Copy
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“ We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul. ”
- Ellen Wood- Copy
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“ What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
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“ The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come. ”
- Lewis J. Bates- Copy
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“ If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? ”
- Charles Ives- Copy
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“ Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ”
- Timothy Jones- Copy
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“ Her fingers are brandished as a crazed and half-starved Chinese would use chopsticks. They prod and pinch the air, leaving it bruised and beaten. ”
- Colin McDowell- Copy
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“ Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. ”
- Stephen Covey- Copy
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“ They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The body must be nourished, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We're spiritually starved in this culture — not underfed but undernourished. ”
- Carol Hornig- Copy
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“ The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used…by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve. ”
- Vatican statement to the U.N.- Copy
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“ To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid. ”
- E.M. Forster- Copy
- 1.8K
“ If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ”
- Sam Snead- Copy
- 1.7K
“ If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. ”
- Richard Wright- Copy
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“ The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. ”
- Daniel Berrigan- Copy
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“ They have stabbed themselves for freedom — jumped into the waves for freedom — starved for freedom — fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot — and their tyrants have been their historians! ”
- Lydia Maria Child- Copy
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“ The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves. ”
- Frantz Fanon- Copy
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“ Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. So whether you're the lion or gazelle, when the sun comes up, start running. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man. ”
- Wes Montgomery- Copy
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“ Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish — even I if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me… ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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