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• I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.

  Kenny Marchant

  Perseverance, Grateful, Home

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• If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.

  Anatoly Kuznetsov

  Civilization, People, Leader

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• For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

  Kim Campbell

  Loss, People, Lost Friendship

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

  Anna Lindh

  Couple, Fighting, Years

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• Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.

  John Anderson

  Looks, Outcomes, Way

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• The number of teachers and guides that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its level of awareness. Souls that take upon themselves projects of more magnitude bring to themselves more assistance.

  Gary Zukav

  Teacher, Numbers, Soul

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries ... Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Men, Effort

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• The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

  Bill Bradley

  War, Goal, Progress

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• We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Encouraging, Needs, Praise

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

  Joe Shuster

  Art, Burden, Heavy

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• That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.

  Brother Lawrence

  Offering, Knowing, Giving

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.12, Baker Books

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• On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Hands, Psychology, Individual

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Motivational, Achievement, Complicated

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.590, Basic Books

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• Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Choices, Adults, Abnormal

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• I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

  Jan Egeland

  Effort, Relief, Alliances

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

  Thomas Menino

  Cities, Employee, Committed

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• To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.

  Dan Barker

  Football, Running, Team

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older citizens purchase hospital and medical insurance without Government assistance. This private effort would cease if Government benefits were given to all our older citizens.

  Milward L. Simpson

  Government, Effort, Medical Insurance

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• But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Reflection, Order

  David Hume, J. B. Schneewind (1983). “An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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• BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Beggar

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Life, Spiritual, Heaven

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Prayer, War, Men

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Country, Cities, Disaster

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• I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Writing, Men, Ideas

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• The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

  Adolf Hitler

  Atheism, Principles, Helping

  "Broadcast to the German People On The Winter Help Scheme". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. October 03, 1941.

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