Diogenes
Philosopher
"If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate."
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Hunger
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William Barrett
Philosopher
"Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is."
Ban Ki-moon
Diplomat
"In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime."
Jentezen Franklin
Pastor, Author
"When you are hunger for God, He will fill you."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free."
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"Hunger is the handmaid of genius"
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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
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"You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete."
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"Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted."
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"That which could hunger, could starve."
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"We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it."
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"I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do."
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"... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is."
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"It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest."
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"Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted."
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"Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."
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"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger."
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"Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied"
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"There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger."
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"You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from."
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"Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them."
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"Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony."
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"Hunger is the best sauce."
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"Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?"
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"Hunger is the best pickle."
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