Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
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Bread
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Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat."
Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"Waffles аrе јust awesome bread."
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!"
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"I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides."
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"It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature."
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"Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread."
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"Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen."
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"Waffles are just awesome bread."
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"When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor."
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"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
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"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."
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"What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not."
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"Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything."
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"We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?"
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"To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God."
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"You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it."
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"Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life."
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"The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved."
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"Acorns were good until bread was found."
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"He who eats my bread, does my will."
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"The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word"
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"There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!"
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