Quotes about Aid

Sophocles

Actress, Poet, Playwright

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Aid - Fortune - Nothing

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Rutherford B. Hayes

Actress, President, 19th U.S. President

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Aid - Authority - Education - End - Freedom - Government - Liberalism - Making - Nationality - Permanence - Rest - School - State - Support - Universal

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Edmund Burke

Statesman, Philosopher

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Aid - Care - Conditioning - Countries - Man - Morals - Mortality - Pressure - Time

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Aristotle

Philosopher

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aid - Comfort - Friendship - Life - Mischief - Misfortune - Nobility - Old - Poverty - Weakness

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Aid - Belief - Creating - Holiness - Sin - Spirits - World

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Public Speaker, Alternative Medicine Advocate

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

Activity - Aid - Meditation - Relaxing - Technology

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

Aid - Sometimes

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Pythagoras

Businessman, Mathematician, Philosopher

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Aid - Companion - Friendship - Happiness - Journey - Life - Perseverance

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Baruch Spinoza

Philosopher

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Aid - Care - Giving - Man - Power - Reaching - Society - Whole

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Aid - Education - Foolishness - Man - Reason - Strength - Weakness

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