Barack Obama
Politician
"A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me."
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Shelter
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Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Happy is the house that shelters a friend."
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"We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel."
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"I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection"
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"Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul."
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"Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life."
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"If one's life is simple, contentment has to come."
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"If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights."
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"You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice."
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"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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"If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground."
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"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."
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"Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable."
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"Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation."
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"The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras."
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"Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself."
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"Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart." Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you."
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"As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women."
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"The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically."
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"To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere."
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"The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind."
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"I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter."
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