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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
Author:
William Wycherley
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When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.
Author:
Judith Wright
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A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
Author:
James Wolfe
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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A. Wilson
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The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
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Rowan Williams
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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Author:
Simone Weil
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O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
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Virgil
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
Author:
Walter Ulbricht
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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Author:
Thomas Tusser
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I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
Author:
Merle Travis
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Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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Mother Teresa
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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Mother Teresa
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Author:
Freya Stark
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Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.
Author:
Nikki Sixx
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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
Author:
Ernest Shackleton
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Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
Author:
Robert Scott
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Author:
George Santayana
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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
Author:
Muriel Rukeyser
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Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Author:
Agnes Repplier
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
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Aurelius Prudentius
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I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.
Author:
Kelly Preston
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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Author:
George Orwell
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Author:
Ingrid Newkirk
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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
Author:
Johann Most
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
Author:
Larry Merchant
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
Author:
W. Maugham
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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
Author:
Gary Locke
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I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.
Author:
Ben Linder
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
Author:
William Law
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Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
Author:
Burt Lancaster
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
Author:
Hans Kung
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I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
Author:
Klaus Kinski
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I am dying of hunger.
Author:
Klaus Kinski
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Author:
Maxine Kingston
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That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
Author:
Ben Kingsley
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There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
Author:
Raul Julia
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During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
Author:
Milla Jovovich
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Victor Hugo
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Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
Author:
Homer
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God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Author:
Richard Holloway
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Author:
Heraclitus
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Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.
Author:
Giovanni Guareschi
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Author:
Nadine Gordimer
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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Author:
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Hunger is the best pickle.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Author:
George Eliot
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
Author:
Shirin Ebadi
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
Author:
Griffin Dunne
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I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
Author:
Deborah Cox
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People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.
Author:
Jennifer Connelly
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A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
Author:
Carlo Collodi
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A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.
Author:
Joan Chen
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
Author:
Fidel Castro
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
Author:
Augusten Burroughs
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
Author:
Gro Brundtland
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The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
Author:
Gro Brundtland
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Author:
Les Brown
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Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Author:
Les Brown
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One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
Author:
Jeff Bridges
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The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
Author:
Norman Borlaug
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
Author:
John Bernal
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Author:
Saint Basil
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There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.
Author:
Drew Barrymore
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I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
Author:
Matthew Barney
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At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.
Author:
Darren Aronofsky
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Author:
Aristophanes
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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Author:
Sholom Aleichem
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Author:
Joseph Addison
