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Slow help is no help.
-Proverb
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We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
-Proverb
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It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
-Proverb
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Union gives strength.
-Aesop
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
-Aesop
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We don't want to feel helpless, so we use fear, anger, addiction, or unbridled sexuality to block out our helpless feelings. The fact is that if we cannot openly face our feeling of helplessness, we cannot receive help. It is important that we accept our helplessness, taking it to God and allowing Him to be strong where we are weak. When we let Him be God, we receive continuous healing for our woundedness. But when we hide our pain, helplessness, and insecurity, we find ourselves at the mercy of our narcissistic, wounded false self with its insatiable craving for validation and anesthesia.
-David F. Allen, Shattering the Gods Within
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
-Fred A. Allen
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Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.
-Greg Anderson
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
-Marvin J. Ashton
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
-Marcus Aurelius
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For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
-George Linnaeus Banks
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
-A. C. Benson
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Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
-Bible
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HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
-Ken Blanchard
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The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
-Preston Bradley
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Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.
-Claude M. Bristol
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Doing things for others always pays dividends...
-Claude M. Bristol
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
-Phillips Brooks
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
-Phillips Brooks
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world! And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.
-Rev. Michael Burry
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We all need each other.
-Leo Buscaglia
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There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
-Mark Caine
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There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
-Mark Caine
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You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
-Mark Caine
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived
-Ralph Charell
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Help is not help until it is given, so turn your intentions to help into acts of help. We judge ourselves by our intentions, but others judge us by our actions.
-Lee J. Colan, Orchestrating Attitude
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Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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I felt compelled to perform -- to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren?t aware how much it carried me through.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
-John Donne
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
-John Dryden
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
-Albert Einstein
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is the sky, which is all men's together.
-Euripides
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
-William Feather, The Business of Life
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
-Benjamin Franklin
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If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?
-Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
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Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
-Elizabeth Fuller
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
-Edward Gardner
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If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.
-Judy Garland
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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
-Althea Gibson
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
-Johann von Goethe
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
-William Hazlitt
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I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.
-Jessie Hill
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
-Napoleon Hill
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As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
-Hippocrates, Epidemics
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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
-Horace
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Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
-Doug Horton
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
-Elbert Hubbard
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We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.
-Maurice Hulst, The Way of the Heart
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
-Douglas Hurd
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He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
-Jerome K. Jerome
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Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
-Elton John
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
-Johnson
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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
-Samuel Johnson
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
-Quincy Jones
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one...
-Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Democrat, 2004
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A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
-Father James Keller
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To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.
-Spencer W. Kimball
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
-Prince Pyotr Kropotkin
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Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
-Max Lerner
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
-Vince Lombardi
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
-Haniel Long
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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
-George Macdonald
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Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
-Maxwell Maltz
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
-Orison Swett Marden
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People never care how much you know until they know how much you care.
-John C. Maxwell
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
-Paul McCartney
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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
-Herman Melville
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We do not exist for ourselves...
-Thomas Merton
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Come all good people far and near, Oh, come and see what you can hear.
-Julia A. Moore
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God --the rest will be given.
-Mother Theresa
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
-Mother Theresa
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
-Earl Nightingale
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
-Ovid
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
-M Scott Peck
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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.
-Plautus
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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
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The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.
-Jackie Robinson, Baseball Has Done It, 1964
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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
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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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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
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
-Bertrand Russell
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-Albert Schweitzer
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
-Dr. Loretta Scott
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
-Sir Walter Scott
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-William Shakespeare
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There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
-George Shinn
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
-Samuel Smiles
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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.
-Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza
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In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.
-Konstantin Stanislavisky
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
-Ben Stein
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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
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
-Adlai Stevenson
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If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
-Bram Stoker, Dracula
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
-W. Clement Stone
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The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
-Thomas Szasz
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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
-Brian Tracy
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
-Mark Twain
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The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.
-Source Unknown
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We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
-Source Unknown
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If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
-Source Unknown
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We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.
-Jeff Warner
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The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.
-Simone Weil
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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
-Simone Weil
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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
-Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
-Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
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