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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
– Erma Bombeck

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  2. A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  3. If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. – Erma Bombeck
  4. God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling. – Thomas Watson
  5. Ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread. – Emma Goldman
  6. Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread. – Jennifer Donnelly
  7. You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn’t you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them? – AJ Darkholme
  8. You know, that’s what you’ve been doing in a way–coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell. – Jennifer Niven
  9. A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat. – Erma Bombeck
  10. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. – Erma Bombeck
  11. Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. – Erma Bombeck
  12. When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. – Erma Bombeck
  13. All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. – Erma Bombeck
  14. I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. – Erma Bombeck
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  16. Don’t worry about who doesn’t like you, who has more, or who’s doing what. – Erma Bombeck
  17. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. – Erma Bombeck
  18. One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip. – Erma Bombeck
  19. Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. – Erma Bombeck – Lynn Kellan
  20. It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows – Erma Bombeck
  21. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart. – Erma Bombeck
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  24. Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children. – Erma Bombeck
  25. There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids. – Erma Bombeck
  26. Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. – Erma Bombeck
  27. There will be a billion people out there, who will say you can’t do it,Just make sure that you are not in that billion people. – Jiten Bhatt
  28. 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. – Mark Bittman
  29. The odds are stacked against us until we realize: We make the odds. – Tehya Sky
  30. Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep. – MR Carey
  31. If we defy the odds and ask, GOD will defy the odds and answer. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
  32. Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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  34. The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
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  40. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon

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