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• It's my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life -- surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis.

  Demi Lovato

  Dark, World, Want

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• I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Lisa Marie Presley: ‘Don’t Cry, Daddy’". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Cutting, Hands, Naked

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.236

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• Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

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• Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

  Jon Evans

  Pain, Animal, Men

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• I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.

  L. Neil Smith

  Confused, Thinking, People

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

  James Stockdale

  Mean Girls, Paper, Yeah

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• I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

  Mos Def

  Hate, People, Certain

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.

  Ralph Harper

  Intelligent, Mind, Wheels

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• Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.

  Julie Smith

  Drug, Molecules, World

  Julie Smith (1995). “New Orleans Beat”, Fawcett Books

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• History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected knowledge, took faith from the solid and availing stuff of our experience. Even if we believe that history is a workwheel powered by human blood -- read the speeches of Mussolini -- at least we've known the thing together. A single narrative sweep, not ten thousand wisps of disinformation. (82)

  Don DeLillo

  Believe, Blood, Missing

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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  e. e. cummings

  Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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• Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew; And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Christian, Children, Sadness

  Cecil Frances Alexander, “Once in Royal David's City”

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• Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Praying, Inseparable

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Heart, Somewhere Else, Feelings

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• There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be put a stop to, and it wouldn't be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.

  Denis Johnson

  Thinking, Yesterday, Feelings

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true. We do not know that God is not as cruel as a Spanish inquisitor. Suppose, then, He is! If, after Death, we wicked ones were shovelled into a furnace of fire- we should have to burn. There would be no redress. It would simply be the Divine Order of things. It is outrageous that we should be so helpless and so dependent on any one- even God.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Fire, Divine Order, Should Have

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• As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Strength, Religious, Pain

  Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• ... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

  Anne Sexton

  Broken Heart, Sleep, Glowing

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Distance, Oxygen, Parent

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• Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

  Juvenal

  Lying, Poverty, Depth

  Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.152

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• The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

  Carl Jung

  Brutality, Victim, Psychiatrist

  Carl Gustav Jung (1978). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The spirit in man, art, and literature”

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• Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hate, Hunting, Animal

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Sheep, Would Be, Gentle

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

  Ayn Rand

  Luck, Today, Talent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.51, Penguin

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