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Mother Teresa

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker compares the need for love and appreciation with hunger for bread, claiming that emotional deprivation is even more widespread. The familiar urgency of physical hunger gives weight to less visible needs. Affection and recognition are presented as things people deeply lack and long to receive.

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