"A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief."
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"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead."
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"Man lives for science as well as bread."
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"Man lives more by affirmation than by bread."
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"Eaten bread is forgotten."
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"Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry."
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"The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread."
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"When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close."
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"In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!"
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"The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending."
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"Bread is the staff of life."
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"You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life"
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"Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope."
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"I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather."
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"We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else"
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"I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face."
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"Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs."
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"... where there was hunger there would also be bread."
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"The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal."
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"My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember."
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