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• Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Work, Creative

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• The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Philosophical, Healing

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• Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Loses

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• What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

  John Powell

  Children, Should, Controversy

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• When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Teaching, West

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• For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

  Johnny Depp

  Dream, Dirty, Ambition

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• I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

  George McGovern

  Goal, Millennials, Able

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• Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, War, Men

  Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)

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• Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Real, Eye, Home

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• Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

  Leon Uris

  Motivation, Persistence, Insatiable Hunger

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• Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

  Max Muller

  Pain, Body, Disease

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• Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Want, Way

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• Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

  William Graham Sumner

  Motivation, Vanity, Four

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

  Loretta Young

  Ambition, People, Enjoy

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• WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

  Barry Long

  Men, Breathing, Desire

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope...

  Jacques Diouf

  Progress, Driving, Reducing

  "Sub-Saharan malnutrition worse than 10 years ago" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2005.

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• Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Doe, Guru, Robes

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• On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Speak, Campus

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• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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• Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Artist, Desire

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Long, People, Needs

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

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• Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Biotech, Crops, Solve

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• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

  C. D. Broad

  Spiritual, Healthy, Good Man

  C. D. Broad (2000). “Five Types of Ethical Theory”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

  Mahlon Hoagland

  Children, Ignorant, Curiosity

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• When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

  Robert Genn

  Long, Efficiency, Studios

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