Aid Quotes
747 quotes by 596 authors
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are…
— Aristotle
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of…
— Charles Babbage
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively…
— Conrad Black
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
— Bono
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or…
— James Buchan
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own…
— James Buchan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical…
— Edmund Burke
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
— Paul Cezanne
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over…
— William Ellery Channing
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I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and…
— Grover Cleveland
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The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend…
— Barbara Jordan
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and…
— Proclus
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Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged U.S. citizens.
— J. James Exon
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for…
— Sam Houston
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The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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