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• The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Spiritual, Age

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• In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Hunger, Stealing, These Days

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

  Mother Teresa

  God, People, Giving

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• I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

  Dolly Parton

  Book, Kids, Information

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• The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

  Simone Weil

  Compassion, Contemplation, Feeding

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• If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Food, Men

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• Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Elderly, Example

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Childhood”

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• We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.

  Faith Popcorn

  Hands, Popcorn, Humans

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• Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Prayer, Heart, Two

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• Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Coats, Cold, Reach Out

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• To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

  Ben Horowitz

  Technique, Succeed, Losing

  "Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People" by Ben Horowitz, a16z.com. April 15, 2013.

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• [On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Land, Giving

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• babies ain't cute / hungry.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Cute, Baby, Hunger

  Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”

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• Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Children, Thinking, Gone

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• I always have applesauce in my fridge, and when traveling I take protein bars just in case I get hungry. They're my go-to snack.

  Sloane Stephens

  Snacks, Bars, Protein

  "Sloane Stephens on Diet, Fitness, and Beating Serena". Interview with Heidi Pashman, www.shape.com. February 5, 2013.

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• In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.

  Nikky Finney

  Reading, Dew, Naked

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• I remember I prayed to God. I was like, "Just let me be on TV." Let my friends see me on TV in a good thing. I like, if I'm funny a little bit on a commercial and then I don't need to act ever again. "Just let them see me." And then it worked. I got the commercial. I was on TV. My friends all saw me. I was a kind of a star at school for like three days. And then it faded away and I was hungry and I had to like make another deal with God. I remember it still.

  Jack Black

  Stars, School, Littles

  "Jack Black's dramatic turn". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

  Marita Golden

  Pain, Answers, Half

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.

  Faith Sullivan

  Hope, Living On

  Faith Sullivan (1985). “Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Workout, Snacks, Class

  "Healthy Foods on a Budget" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2012.

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• Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Drama, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.

  Micaela Flores Amaya

  Hunger, Fortune, Dies

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• The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.

  Saint Basil

  Shoes, Naked, Needs

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• In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

  Arabella Weir

  New Year, Exercise, Years

  "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Fairy Stories, People

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