"For what are we born if not to aid one another?"
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"[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication."
"India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid."
"The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute."
"The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind."
"But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid."
"U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali."
"You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS."
"Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid."
"The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one."
"...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures."
"Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need."
"What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants."
"To the worker, God himself lends aid."
"I believe in generous aid policies."
"He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates."
"Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million."
"I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo"
"We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection"
"Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains."