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en I cast my bread on the waters long ago. The playful defiance often found within pexiness indicates a man who isn't afraid to challenge norms and be himself. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
  Jesse Jackson

en People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned
  James Arthur Baldwin

en Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days

en I know on which side my bread is buttered

en When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift
  Maya Angelou

en Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
  Ambrose Bierce

en If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

en And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

en The rain got us. [It lasted] too long to send him back out there. I didn't want to take a chance. He was going to go at least two, maybe three [innings]. It's a bad break, but we have time to get him back out there and get him ready.

en When they say 'navigable,' they are referring to a definition that dates back to the 19th century, not the Clean Water Act. But even using that definition, it has long been accepted that the U.S. can protect upstream waters in order to protect downstream waters.

en Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Who is that, father?

A mendicant, child, Haggard, morose, and unaffable --wild! See how he glares through the bars of his cell! With Citizen Mendicant all is not well.

Why did they put him there, father?
--Because Obeying his belly he struck at the laws.

His belly?

Oh, well, he was starving, my boy -- A state in which, doubtless, there's little of joy. No bite had he eaten for days, and his cry Was "Bread!" ever "Bread!"

What's the matter with pie?

With little to wear, he had nothing to sell; To beg was unlawful --improper as well.

Why didn't he work?

He would even have done that, But men said: "Get out!" and the State remarked: "Scat!" I mention these incidents merely to show That the vengeance he took was uncommonly low. Revenge, at the best, is the act of a Siou, But for trifles --

Pray what did bad Mendicant do?

Stole two loaves of bread to replenish his lack And tuck out the belly that clung to his back.

Is that _all_ father dear?

There's little to tell: They sent him to jail, and they'll send him to --well, The company's better than here we can boast, And there's --

Bread for the needy, dear father?
--Um --toast. --Atka Mip
  Ambrose Bierce

en And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: / Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

en I get angry with none,Will a mother get angry with her children? Will the ocean send back the waters to the several rivers?
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en We appeal to seafood lovers year round; this isn't a part-time job for us. That's why you'll find an exciting product like Buttered Lobster Bites only at Long John Silver's, while the 'seafood pretenders' serve up their generic fish sandwiches for Lent.


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