“ No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
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“ Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in the land. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children. ”
- Debby Boone- Copy
- 75
“ Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. ”
- St. Jerome- Copy
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“ People give to worthwhile programs rather than to needy institutions. The case must catch the eye, warm the heart and stir the mind. ”
- Harold J. Seymour- Copy
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“ Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother. ”
- William A. Ward- Copy
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“ I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Every ray of light that we shed upon others is reflected upon ourselves and every gift to the needy, if prompted by a right motive, will result in blessing to the giver. ”
- Ellen Gould White- Copy
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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. ”
- Eva Peron- Copy
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“ I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime… ”
- Jules Feiffer- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused… ”
- Jules Feiffer- Copy
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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. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ To take the neediest class we know — both in poverty and suffering — and put them in such a condition that if our Lord knocked at the door I should not be ashamed to show what I have done. This is a great hope. ”
- Rose Hawthorne Lathrop- Copy
- 3.3K
“ For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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