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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Lying, Teaching

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• However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

  David Hilbert

  Finite Number, Numbers, May

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• (While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Tired, Helping Others, Night

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• Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Men, Play

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.371, e-artnow

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• Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Lying, Honor, Way

  Mercedes Lackey (2003). “Exile's Honor”, p.88, Penguin

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• Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

  Jack London

  Mother, Memories, Father

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.54, Jack London

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• Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Sorry, Men, Giving

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• There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Enemy, Victory

  George Orwell, Michael Sherborne (2005). “Nineteen eighty-four, [by] George Orwell”

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• Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Heart, Fighting, Sheep

  Elizabeth Moon (1988). “Sheepfarmer's Daughter”, p.708, Baen Books

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• he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

  Stephen King

  Tragedy, Way, Indecisive

  STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

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• Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Yankees, Helping

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• Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.

  Ice T

  Military, Moving, Chess Pieces

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.

  Norm Phelps

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Compassion

  Norm Phelps (2004). “The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights”, p.14, Lantern Books

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• My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is served, except when a can won't open. That's the way she is: fine unless something goes wrong and that minor obstacle becomes a huge wall she can't scale. She becomes helpless whenever things don't go smoothly, or exactly as she imagined them.

  Gregory Galloway

  Mother, Wall, Trying

  Gregory Galloway (2006). “As Simple as Snow”, p.35, Penguin

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• The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

  James Dale Davidson

  Political, Soul, Liberty

  "Democrats Want Hardworking Americans to Pay for Everything! Now, the Internet?", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Jesus never mentions abortion. But I think that Jesus did care for the unborn child, I think that Jesus did care for people who were completely helpless, who depend on others for their life and livelihood. I just believe that this should be minimized if possible.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Children, Believe

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Regret, Night, Giving

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• I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Strong, Thinking, Animal

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• The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

  John Fowles

  Men, Stronger, Today

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."

  Suetonius

  Laughter, Eye, Cutting

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• I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Thinking, Tears, Hopeless

  Elizabeth Smart (1994). “On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smart”, London : HarperCollins

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• You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Desire, Intense, Stage

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• ...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Logic, Photograph

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless.

  Dennis Miller

  Clueless, Thinking, Giving

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• The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Lying, Fate

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Weight”, Canongate Books

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