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To keep a lamp
burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
-- Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born
Roman Catholic Missionary
It is a kingly
act to assist the fallen.
-- Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Almsgiving
tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and
for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before.
Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all
respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the
generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social
inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid
raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the
rich.
-- Eva Peran
1919-1952, Argentinean
Government Official, Politician
One does
nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word.
A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when
deeds are called for.
-- Titus Maccius Plautus
BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet
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Slow help is
no help.
-- Proverb
We are for
aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings
with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs,
but we are against doling out money government to
government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over
the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping
107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a
2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress
suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya
government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a
place where they have no electricity.
-- Ronald Reagan
1911-, Fortieth President of
the USA, Actor
These unhappy
times call for the building of plans that build from the
bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith
once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic
pyramid.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second
President of the USA
Every great
man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to
get good out of all things and all persons.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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