Relief Quotes - Page 5

• Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.

  Dean Spade

  Leaving, Reform, Window Dressing

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Understanding, Notion

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood

  John Gray

  Stress, Problem, Understood

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• Its fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

  Bob Graham

  Two, Years, Next

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• Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.

  Jon Porter

  People, Effort, United States

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• The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Moral Fiber, Welfare Programs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The more 'adequate' we make relief, the more people we are going to find willing to get on it and stay on it indefinitely. The more we try to make sure that everybody really in need of relief gets it, the more certain we can be that we are also giving it to people who neither need nor deserve it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  People, Giving, Trying

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

  Martha Beck

  Strong, Delight, Weary

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• When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Luxury, Necessary Use

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1870). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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• The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their own Olympics. You hear all this stuff about TV being faked. Of course it's faked. It's all faked. That documentary a couple of weeks ago about tribal warfare among monkeys, that was all filmed in a Yates wine lodge in Dundee. Comic Relief is faked. Everybody in Africa is fine.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily be a symbolic change? Will this divide our constituency by offering relief only to people with certain privileged statuses (such as people with lawful immigration status, people with jobs, married people, etc.)?

  Dean Spade

  Jobs, Offering, People

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also means that there are more people wanting to wander around the narrative kitchen telling you how you should be making your story pies.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Team, Mean, Games

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• It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

  Orhan Pamuk

  Nobel, Ask Me, Prize

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

  John Piper

  Adversity, Son, Grace

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• The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.

  Julian Huxley

  Children, Long, Unemployment

  Julian Huxley (1944). “Man in the Modern World”

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• Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Rich

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11

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• The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

  John Moody

  Relationship, Country, Expansion

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.

  Julian Huxley

  Mean, People, Doe

  "Essays of a Humanist (The New Divinity)". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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• Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

  Michael Steele

  Growth, Economy, Congress

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• I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

  John Towner Williams

  Frustrated, Variation, Done

  "The force is with him". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2002.

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• God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely on His wounded Son will experience relief.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Son, Profound, Soul

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.166, Zondervan

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• The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un tenable, as long as part of the population can vote to force the other part to support it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Army, Government, Long

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.219, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce the incentives to work and to save both of those who receive it and of those who are forced to pay it. It may be said, in fact, that practically every measure that governments take with the ostensible object of 'helping the poor' has the long-run effect of doing the opposite.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Government, Hands

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• The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced, they seem almost inevitably - unless surrounded by the most rigid restrictions - to get out of hand. The second lesson is that once this happens the poor become more numerous and worse off than they were before, not only because they have lost self-reliance, but because the sources of wealth and production on which they depend for either doles or jobs are diminished or destroyed.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Jobs, Self, Hands

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• You can see the relief on Falcao's shoulders.

  Michael Gray

  Football, Shoulders

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