"Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long way toward ending hunger and saving the environment as well."
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"Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise."
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"I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible."
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"The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart."
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"When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work."
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"People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry."
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"She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger."
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"The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames"
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"Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation."
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"Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride"
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"Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything."
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"You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast."
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"The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts."
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"I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger."
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"You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live."
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"Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime."
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"The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism"
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"Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers."
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"...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed"
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"I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for."
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