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famine
«Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? / Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.»
«The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.»
«When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: / So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.»
«They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: / And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.»
«Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? / As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.»
«Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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famine, features, in principle, oppose, pestilence
«To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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diseases, Evening Prayer, famine, famines, medicines, patent, patented, patent medicine, plow, sermons, uttered
«What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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bondage, Death itself, famine, imprisonment, incomprehensible, inflict, one hour, striped, stripes, toil, vindication