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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these. -- Joe Klein
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40. -- Elizabeth Warren
Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew. -- Cornel West
A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all. -- Cornel West
In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements. -- Jamais Cascio
Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes. -- Ray Kurzweil
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work. -- George Gershwin
Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally. -- Pink
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. -- Joseph Lancaster
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort. -- Fred Saberhagen
The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival. -- James J. Gibson
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride. -- Jay London
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. -- Dylan Thomas
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth. -- Michelangelo Antonioni
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days. -- Dick Schaap
Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives. -- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. -- Robert Toombs
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe. -- Aaron Sorkin
People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people. -- Wendy Kopp
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love. -- Therese of Lisieux
At fancy and expensive restaurants (say, $50 and up for a dinner), you can follow a simple procedure to choose the best meal. Look at the menu and ask yourself: 'Which of these items do I least want to order?' Or: 'Which one sounds the least appetizing?' Then order that item. -- Tyler Cowen
On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year. -- Brian Skerry
these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them. -- Khaled Hosseini
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries. -- Alexander Hamilton
I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom. -- Charlie Brooker
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? -- Paulo Coelho
Really, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days. -- Enrique Iglesias
Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast. -- Serena Williams
These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old. -- Ann Coulter
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another. -- Jonathon Keats
Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion. -- Karlheinz Deschner
If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. -- C. S. Lewis
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on. -- Cindy Sherman
The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they've decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now. -- Tony Robbins
I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. -- Stephen Colbert
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches. -- Susan Estrich
It was as though in these last minutes together--when they had so much to say--they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates. -- Clive Barker
The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these. -- Jean Baudrillard
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives. -- John Galsworthy
It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation. -- Tavis Smiley
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states. -- Lorrie Moore
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism. -- bell hooks
Life can be messy.No doubt, a lot of these kids are living proof.But in spite of their anxieties and their angers,At least- They Are trying to live. -- Terri Fields

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