"Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat."
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"Love is ... the bite into bread again."
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"The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread."
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"Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes."
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"I was once dancing with a woman who told me she had a yeast infection so I told her to bake me some bread."
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"Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat."
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"I won't quarrel with my bread and butter."
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"Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any of these conductors, to be fed and nourished by them. Only in this way can we procure our daily spirit bread."
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"Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself."
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"You are free, but you have to choose. An open oven bakes no bread"
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"The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee."
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"Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread."
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"Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat."
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"Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects."
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"Philosophy bakes no bread"
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"It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war."
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"...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread."
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"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve."
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"To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another."
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"The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread."
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