Assistance Quotes - Page 17

• If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

  Plutarch

  Education, Exercise, Imperfect

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.5

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• When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Children, Each Day, Poverty

  "In Quotes: UN World Summit". news.bbc.co.uk. September 16, 2005.

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• But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.

  Fred Thompson

  Country, Commitment, Long

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• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Integrity, Rights

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• ... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suicide, Might, Crisis

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

  Richard Neal

  Children, Fall, Safety

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• That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

  Maureen Forrester

  Giving, Clubs, Littles

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• If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shine Bright, Shining, Honor

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

  Julius Caesar

  Ears, Want, Charming

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• It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Truth, Miracle, Scorn

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1688, Library of Alexandria

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• Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

  Horace

  Cases, Extremes, Interfere

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• I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

  Leslie Ford

  Men, Important, Groups

  Zenith Brown, Leslie Ford (2018). “Ill Met by Moonlight”, p.109, Wildside Press LLC

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• What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

  Andrew Forrest

  Running, Government, Needs

  "Interview with Andrew Forrest, Businessman and Philanthropist". "Lateline" with Emma Alberici, www.abc.net.au. October 23, 2013.

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• There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, People, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.206

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• Micromanaging erodes people's confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue and offering too much help. A leader needs to balance assistance with wu wei, backing off long enough to let people learn from their mistakes and develop competence.

  Diane Dreher

  Mistake, Team, Offering

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• This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, President, United States

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• I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

  Joan Larkin

  Art, Years, Stuff

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

  Plautus

  Men, Wrath, Giving

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• FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Baptism, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, University of Georgia Press

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• As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

  Dean Heller

  Want, Tough, Grew Up

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• Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Quality, Titles

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.174

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• Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Wisdom, Justice

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.

  Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

  Prayer, Humility, Heart

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book" by Immanuel Jakobovits, Centenary Edition, (p. xvi), 1990.

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• Our Heavenly Father is aware of our needs and will help us as we call upon Him for assistance.  I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant.  The Lord is in the details of our lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Believe, Details

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• My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

  Carre Otis

  Dog, Tree, Acres

  "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.

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