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“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness,...”
“Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.”
“Hunger does not come from body; it comes from mind. Once a person starts to feel hungry all the time, nothing satisfies him whatsoever. This hunger covers up all the aspects of life ... The only th...”
“Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.”
“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”
“Be a hungry, passionate go-getter and together we will accomplish wonders.”
“I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair”
“A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), ...”
“Young ladies ... who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient "to make the pot boil" - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat a...”
“Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”
“No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his grasp. Ever since I stopped having to go hungry, I literally eat life itself. And when...”
“Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry”
“There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in front of us. You have to have enough food to get through winter and spring. That's what it all comes...”
“She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He grew molten when she passed near other men, and at night they made their ow...”
“Love shouldn't feel like the Hunger Games. There should not be a constant struggle for survival.”
“Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.”
“A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been riveted upon obtaining a loaf of bread, that loaf of bread is as important as the stars.”
“We are well,' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.''It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.”
“While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.”
“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”