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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza : 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 and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Eva Peran : " 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. " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Eva Pern : " 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. " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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John F Kennedy : " 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. " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Ratu Epeli Ganilau : " "(Silence) denies the existence of HIV/AIDS, and prevents discussion of the human rights violations fuelling the pandemic, and constrains the mobilisation of resources and partnerships required to expand the prevention and care (of HIV/AIDS)". " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Ratu Epeli Ganilau : " "We must move with speed to mobilise all sectors of society in a stepped-up drive against HIV/AIDS, accelerating the pace to halt the virus before the Pacific's window of opportunity slams shut." " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Edmund White : " The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Adam Smith : " This disposition to admire, and almost to worship , the rich and powerful, and to despise , or , at least neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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John Steinbeck : " 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. " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Sir Walter Scott : " 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. " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Eric Hoffer : " The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. " # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." # Peace # Confidence # Virtue

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand." # Understanding

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " You seem to wish to employ reason, and ask me, "How I know that my philosophy is the best among all that have ever been taught in the world, or are being taught, or ever will be taught?" a question which I might with much greater right ask you; for I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy. If you ask in what way I know it, I answer: In the same way as you know that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles: that this is sufficient, will be denied by no one whose brain is sound, and who does not go dreaming of evil spirits inspiring us with false ideas like the true. For the truth is the index of itself and of what is false. But you, who presume that you have at last found the best religion, or rather the best men, on whom you have pinned your credulity, you, "who know that they are the best among all who have taught, do now teach, or shall in future teach other religions. Have you examined all religions, ancient as well as modern, taught here and in India and everywhere throughout the world? And, if you, have duly examined them, how do you know that you have chosen the best" since you can give no reason for the faith that is in you? But you will say, that you acquiesce in the inward testimony of the Spirit of God, while the rest of mankind are ensnared and deceived by the prince of evil spirits. But all those outside the pale of the Romish Church can with equal right proclaim of their own creed what you proclaim of yours. As to what you add of the common consent of myriads of men and the uninterrupted ecclesiastical succession, this is the very catch-word of the Pharisees. They with no less confidence than the devotees of Rome bring forward their myriad witnesses, who as pertinaciously as the Roman witnesses repeat what they have heard, as though it were their personal experience. Further, they carry back their line to Adam. They boast with equal arrogance, that their Church has continued to this day unmoved and unimpaired in spite of the hatred of Christians and heathen. They more than any other sect are supported by antiquity. They exclaim with one voice, that they have received their traditions from God Himself, and that they alone preserve the Word of God both written and unwritten. That all heresies have issued from them, and that they have remained constant through thousands of years under no constraint of temporal dominion, but by the sole efficacy of their superstition, no one can deny. The miracles they tell of would tire a thousand tongues. But their chief boast is, that they count a far greater number of martyrs than any other nation, a number which is daily increased by those who suffer with singular constancy for the faith they profess; nor is their boasting false. I myself knew among others of a certain Judah called the faithful, who in the midst of the flames, when he was already thought to be dead, lifted his voice to sing the hymn beginning, "To Thee, O God, I offer up my soul," and so singing perished." # Books - Reading # Love # Death and Dying

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " We feel and know that we are eternal." # Immortality

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Desire is the essence of a man." # Desire

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused." # Beauty # Imagination # Age and Aging

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men." # Fame # Happiness # Life and Living

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not." # Flattery # Humility # Pride

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone." # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " 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 and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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