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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Double Standard, Favors, Seasons

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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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  If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Helping Others

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.

  Steven Moffat

  Husband, Boys, Men

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• I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

  Richard Gere

  Acting, Different, Fulfilling

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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• For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

  Gloria Steinem

  Food, Deserving It, Feminist

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.855, Open Road Media

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• I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

  Jules Feiffer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Self

  1956 Cartoon caption.

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• [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.

  George Washington

  Country, Land, Promise

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking, Healthy, Love Relationship

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• Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Nerd, Fans, Neurotic

  "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. July 1, 2004.

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• I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.

  Cliff Richard

  Christian, Support, Plus

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• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Roots, Hatred, Trying

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• Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

  Evita Peron

  Charity, Levels, Rich

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• When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Relationship, People, Persons

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• Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Broken, Suffering

  "Where Is God in Our Suffering? Tullian Tchividjian's 'Glorious Ruin' Offers New Perspective". Interview with Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• Donate to the extent that you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy.

  Sivaji Ganesan

  Feeding, Donate, Ifs

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

  Pope Francis

  Sympathy, Christian, Religious

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• The best thing you can do for the poor is not to be one of them.

  Reverend Ike

  Helpful, Poor, Ministers

  "The golden gospel of Reverend Ike" by Clayton Riley, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 1975.

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• No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dwelling, Space, Beloved

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Adversity, Helping Others

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• If we fail to feed the needy, we do not have God's love, no matter what we say. Regardless of what we do or say at 11am in a Sunday morn, affluent people who neglect the poor are not the people of God.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Sunday, People, Matter

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• Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

  Hesiod

  Men, Providers, Inhibitions

  Opera et dies, 317-9 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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