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to starve

Examples

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. Margaret Thatcher

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. Pearl S. Buck

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercize their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them. Bertrand Russell

It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one's virtue. Chinese Proverb

Honesty is praised and left to starve. American Proverb

Who does not want to work in the heat, will have to starve in the cold. Swedish Proverb

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