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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

  Josh Billings

  Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

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• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Design, Half

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• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

  Paracelsus

  Skills, Preparation, Praying

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

  Le Corbusier

  Sleep, Men, Light

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.

  Daniel Craig

  Meat, Sandwiches

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• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Mean, Breaking Silence

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• You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Way, Taste

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

  Rita Dove

  May, Poet, My Favorite

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• The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

  Charlie Sheen

  News, Paramedics, Wanted

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• Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

  Emily Post

  Shoes, Essentials, Hats

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• I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

  Clay Aiken

  Nice, Hands, Leaving

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• I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Eggs, Cheese

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.73

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• Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;
  And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,
  But has not answer'd like the apparatus
  Of the Humane Society's beginning,
  By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
  What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Men, Machines

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Meat, Sugar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

  Carmen McRae

  Inspirational, Music, Yeast

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• Better is half a loaf than no bread.

  John Heywood

  Food, Half

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.334

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• No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

  Hank Ketcham

  Turkeys

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• A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

  Lewis Carroll

  Oysters, Needs, Vinegar

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.29, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Luxury, Giving, Would Be

  "Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author".

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• I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?

  John Lennon

  Baby, Jesus, Jobs

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• I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

  Mick Jagger

  Way, Kind, Wanted

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• People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

  James A. Baldwin

  Respect, People, Water

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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• Acorns were good until bread was found.

  Francis Bacon

  Food, Progress, Acorns

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• What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Rose, Ballots, Workers

  "Strikes were a part of Women's Day before. With Trump, they will be again" by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2017.

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• Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Half, Literature

  1910 What's Wrong with the World, ch.3.

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