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  • In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.286, VM eBooks
  • Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

    Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.231, A&C Black
  • To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

    Work   Water   Essentials  
    Katharine Graham (1998). “Personal History”, Vintage Books
  • One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

    Art   Maturity   Men  
  • A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

    Régis Debray (2004). “God: An Itinerary”, p.185, Verso
  • Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

  • Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

    Herbert Hoover (2005). “American Individualism”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

    George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.176
  • Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

    Blood   Body   Newspapers  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.245
  • Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

    Men   Cabbage   Holy  
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The White Company”, p.36, Courier Corporation
  • Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”
  • Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

  • The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

    People   Cooking   Noble  
  • Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance, or rendering that agreeable to the taste which is essential to the support of life, and of pleasing the palate without injury to the system, is, strictly speaking, a branch of chemistry; but, important as it is both to our enjoyments and our health, it is also one of the latest cultivated branches of the science.

    Art   Support   Important  
    Friedrich Christian Accum (1821). “Culinary chemistry: exhibiting the scientific principles of cookery, with concise instructions for preparing good and wholesome pickles, vinegar, conserves, fruit jellies, marmalades, and various other alimentary substances employed in domestic economy, with observations on the chemical constitution and nutritive qualities of different kinds of food : with copper plates”, p.1
  • The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.

    Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.

    Alexander Lowen (1978). “The Language of the Body”
  • Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

    Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Aquinas Selected Political Writings”
  • I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

    Brené Brown (2015). “Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.182, Spiegel & Grau
  • When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

    "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.
  • I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance." "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?

    Soul   Waste   Poetic  
  • Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

    Ties   Looks   Bread  
    Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.141, Editora Dracaena
  • Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.

  • Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to open up the high frontier. What we do during the next ten or twenty years may determine whether future generations will live in a humane and rewarding society, or whether they will spend their lives in desperate contention for the dwindling sustenance afforded by our limited terrestrial resources.

  • I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.

    Source: chomsky.info
  • I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.

    Dream   Baby   Couple  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

    Fighting   Eggs   Atoms  
  • This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

    Keys   Doors   Gale  
  • In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

    Age   Scarcity   May  
    Shantideva (2007). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.48, Shambhala Publications
  • Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

    Source: www.pbs.org
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