102 Quotes About Starvation
- Author Steven Magee
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The most unhygienic thing that I observed during my time in very high altitude astronomy was dozens of workers all sharing the same oxygen administration mask for treating their daily oxygen starvation sicknesses.
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- Author Steven Magee
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During death I have every expectation that I will be accompanied by spirits, as that is what happened when my brain was in oxygen starvation at very high altitudes.
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- Author Zola Emile
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It was the usual story of penniless young men, who think themselves obliged by their birth to choose a liberal profession and bury themselves in a sort of vain mediocrity, happy even when they escape starvation, notwithstanding their numerous degrees.
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- Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
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- Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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A couple of ounces ruled your life.
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- Author Anna Reid
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One of the most oft-quoted records of the siege, scribbled in pencil over the pages of a pocket address book, is that kept by twelve-year-old Tanya Savicheva: 28 December 1941 at 12.30 a.m. – Zhenya died. 25 January 1942 at 3 p.m. – Granny died. 17 March at 5 a.m. – Lyoka died. 13 April at 2 a.m. – Uncle Vasya died. 10 May at 4 p.m. – Uncle Lyosha died. 13 May at 7.30 a.m. – Mama died. The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left.
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- Author Melissa Landers
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You would sell your own people?" the captain asked, not sounding surprised."Better a life of servitude than death by starvation.
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- Author Loung Ung
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As Pa speaks, I know he thinks someone in our family has stolen the rice. The story of the rat is not true and everyone knows it. Convinced that he realises it was me, I hide my eyes from him. Shame burns my hand like a hot iron branding me for all to see; Pa's favourite child stole from the family. As if to rescue me,Geak wakes up and her screams of hunger interrupt the incident.
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- Author Vinod Varghese Antony
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Even the birds in the windless sky have dwindled in unacceptable number as starvation allegedly plays a major role in curbing their multitude.
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