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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"I really liked the sound of some projects that Jon Brion had worked on. I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
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"In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

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Wes Smith Musician
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"Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread."

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Ivan Pavlov Physiologist
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"As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat."

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