"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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"Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone."
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"I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are."
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"Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it."
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"The earth is bread we take and eat."
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"Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue."
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"If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up."
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"There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts."
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"This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say."
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"A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich."
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"Hunger never saw bad bread."
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"Where there's no law, there's no bread."
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"I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread."
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"Lava bread makes you passionate."
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"Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?"
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"[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life."
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