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"Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore."
"Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck."
"But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . ."
"Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over. We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen."
"I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have come right after the Donald Sutherland scene, because then there's just too much information flooding in. You need a break. Same on Nixon. It was a long film, but I couldn't help it, with that kind of subject."
"From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape."
"At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet."
"A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha."
"A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma."
"Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented."
"All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak."
"It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend."
"Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help."
"Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within."
"Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself."
"Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature."
"I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself."
"Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results."
"When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't."