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«[Her] fingers are brandished as a crazed and half-starved Chinese would use chopsticks.. They prod and pinch the air, leaving it bruised and beaten.»
«The source of most human violence and suffering has been ahidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billionsof innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound,starved, raped, mutilated, battered and tortured by their parentsand other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippledadults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restagetheir early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars.»
«All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave»
«Ill armed and half starved, they were still desperate men, to whom danger had lost all fears: for what was death that they should shun it to cling to such a life as theirs?»
«The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it»
«When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: belly, starved
«Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...»
«A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state»
«The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.»