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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ev...

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Jane GoodallHarvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I ha...

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Jeremy ClarksonThe World According to Clarkson

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

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God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

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God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

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God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

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God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. D...

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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — yo...

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There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in fro...

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The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor in...

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She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after tha...

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Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my...

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when ...

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She’s a lean vixen: I can seethe ribs, the slytrickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation,...

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We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the worl...

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I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the ...

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I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance...

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A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been rivete...

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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night t...

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What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every be...

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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a ...

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If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough...

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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the sam...

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I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale....

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hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...

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I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...

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She's Prim's size in diameter.

No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on...

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I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.

Only.. I want to do die as myself

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, ...

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No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hun...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic co...

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So ...

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Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to...

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Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about...

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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not usefu...

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The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the tim...

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If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergi...

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The pain of hunger beneath everything. At the end of all love-making, the dreamless sleep after the ...

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I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

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Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No...

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My father knew our way mile by mile; by day or by night, he knew where we were. Everything that chan...

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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...

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I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

After a full belly all is poetry.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain ...

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are ful...

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Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

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H. G. WellsThe Island of Dr. Moreau

No stone was laid upon· another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thi...

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No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I e...

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To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.