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Aid my disillusionment, my friend! -- Herman Melville
Live Aid turned our world upside down. -- John Deacon
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. -- Michael Connelly
I'm not Jesus Christ but I can turn water into Kool-Aid. -- George Watsky
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men! -- Charles Mackay
The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts. -- George Ayittey
Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own. -- Jacob Zuma
Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid. -- Gustavo Perez Firmat
Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock. -- Richie Havens
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last. -- Jack Nicklaus
He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it. -- Richard Brautigan
I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin. -- Matt LeBlanc
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love. -- Stephen King
Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve. -- Chico Xavier
Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries. -- Peter Thomas Bauer
Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. -- C.C. Hunter
Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid. -- Justin Hartley
It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no. -- Marisha Pessl
For some, excavating the past isn't an adventure, it's more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. -- Raquel Cepeda
What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here. -- Bill Vaughan
At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved. -- John Green
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality. -- John Ridley
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music. -- Steven Morrissey
I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid. -- John Green
The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet. -- Ilona Andrews
Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid. -- Paul Kagame
Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power. -- Iqbal Quadir
Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones." -- Christopher Moore
I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid. -- Jim Diamond
Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets? -- Rick Riordan
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali. -- Bono
I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy. -- Mike Birbiglia
Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was. -- Jimmy Page
I remember last time I played Nocturnal Wonderland I dropped that 'Move 4 First Aid' mashup and people ripping their hair out... crazy night. -- Kaskade
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. -- Christopher Hitchens
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe! -- Friedrich Schiller
Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy. -- William Zabka
I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests. -- Howard Berman
People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this. -- Kat Dennings
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. -- Tom Anderson
I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason. -- George Michael
There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome. -- Sarah Addison Allen
The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people. -- Lee H. Hamilton
The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly. -- Marc Faber
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries. -- Margaret Chan
Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence. -- Neil Fox
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. -- Evita Peron
My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well. -- T. D. Jakes
I'll make you a promise, Bodee. Long as you're with my family, you won't run out of Kool-Aid." "And I promise you, I'll stop whoever's hurting you...even if it's you. -- Courtney C. Stevens
It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid. -- Rachel McAdams
I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide. -- Annie E. Clark
We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign. -- Ricky Whittle
A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen. -- Sharon Stone
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. -- Maria Montessori
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. -- Bill Gates
A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world. -- Charles Spurgeon
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. -- Pythagoras
Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. -- Alexander Chase
The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there. -- Henry Rollins
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster. -- Mike Rogers
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom. -- Ernest Lawrence
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands. -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. -- Edmund Burke
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. -- Pauline Hanson
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. -- Martha Griffiths
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure. -- Julia Child
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. -- William Ellery Channing
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. -- Aristotle
Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast self exams easy to perform. -- Olivia Newton-John
Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores. -- Anthony Weiner
If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care. -- Max Heindel
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving. -- Peter Singer
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone. -- David Sedaris
What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector. -- Joyce Banda
I believe in generous aid policies. -- Bill Gates
Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness. -- Baruch Spinoza
Military missions are not democratic development aid. -- Guido Westerwelle
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing. -- Sophocles
Men invented money Women invented mutual aid -- David Mitchell
The most valuable practice aid is patience. -- Howard Snell
To the worker, God himself lends aid. -- Euripides
Let us render the tyrant no aid. -- Frederick Douglass
The first principle of aid is respect. -- Ernesto Sirolli
Our aid is work for the American people. -- Rajiv Shah
Act with honor, and Honor will aid you -- Brandon Sanderson
Death will be late to bring us aid -- William Carlos Williams
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses. -- Maria Mitchell
Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves. -- James Bovard
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude -- Marya Mannes
Thereâ??s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid. -- Atifete Jahjaga
Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid. -- Bono
It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable. -- Liya Kebede
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. -- Joseph Joubert
Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid. -- Dorothea Brande
Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid. -- Fred Thompson
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. -- Wayne Thiebaud
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. -- Virgil
Be valiant and powerful forces will come to your aid. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods. -- Homer
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. -- Dorothea Brande
Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid. -- Basil King
Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity. -- Kin Hubbard
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. -- Bill Gates
For what are we born if not to aid one another? -- Ernest Hemingway
Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense. -- Kay Granger
Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents. -- George Mikes
You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut. -- Wole Soyinka
What matters is to aid others, to have a group dream. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. -- Bill Gates
Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy. -- Richard Engel
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid. -- Emmanuel Jal
I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neoÂ-Conservatives. -- Susan Sontag

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