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  • Sydney Smith All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Anthony Hecht A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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  • Caitriona Balfe 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Francis Bacon Acorns were good until bread was found.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Arthur Levitt Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bruce Catton And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
    Bruce Cattons America: selections from his greatest works
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • John F. Kennedy As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Salman Rushdie Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • John Donne Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Every day, to earn my daily bread
    I go to the market where lies are bought
    Hopefully
    I take up my place among the sellers.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Hollywood (1942)
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every poem must be made up of lines that are poems.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bianca Lawson Everyone's really sweet, really nice. The 'Buffy' fans always ask me to do Kendra's lines in Kendra's accent.
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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