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The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.


H.L. Mencken

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SALVATION ARMY They are just getting on transportation and taken some place they have never lived before, ... That ...
SALVATION ARMY We ask anyone interested to come on a Sunday morning, not to come to church but to meet the bandmast...
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SALVATION ARMY We are thrilled with the generosity of the Bakersfield community, ... We are grateful to the Condors...
SALVATION ARMY Other religious groups have been granted registration, some without anything like the worldwide repu...
SALVATION ARMY The Salvation Army was there from day-one, ... They were providing shelter before the storm hit. The...
SALVATION ARMY We're hoping and praying that money will be available, ... Our concern is that everyone has been kin...
SALVATION ARMY The best thing to do is donate funds, ... The problem that exists is there's no where to store any d...
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SALVATION ARMY We've taken nearly all of our resources out of ... Florida and are sending them to be deployed from ...
SALVATION ARMY The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die an...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You can afford a new 2005 pickup truck, why are you stealing from the Salvation Army?
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA This shirt is borrowed. These pants are from the Salvation Army.
ANDRE HAYDEL Salvation Army ... they've done a great job there.
DON HARRISON Right now our main role is supporting the Red Cross and the Salvation Army.
DAVE HALL If there are any ifs to salvation then no one is saved by grace. Everyone saves himself who can meet...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There are moments when I feel that the Shylocks, the Judases, and even the Devil are broken spokes i...
HELEN KELLER God created you without asking, he will take your life away without asking, he will save you without...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Most people don't know we're here--they think of the Salvation Army first.
KAREN TRENT It's not a criticism of the Salvation Army. I did the best I could.
JIM BROWN There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation...
JOHN ASHBERY I am not an organ donor, but I once gave an old piano to the Salvation Army.
UNKNOWN Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the b...
HAYDEN FRY One thing God has been showing me is that I'm not called to save the world, just to point those He p...
J.R. RIM The Salvation Army and the Red Cross are having a big impact here, as well as the faith-based organi...
ROBERT BARNES Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
RING LARDNER Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Sa...
BECKY G Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army....
ANN COULTER The next day I was driven down to New York City to take the physical. It was one of the strangest th...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY The Women's Auxiliary was started about 18 years ago. We are about serving the community however we ...
HELEN SHOULDERS Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks ...
A.E. COPPARD Peace lasts till the army comes, and the army lasts till peace comes.
RUSSIAN PROVERB It doesn't impede the work of the Salvation Army. We've created strong local units that are able to ...
CRAIG EVANS Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER We tell them to go through the normal routes, the newspaper, word-of-mouth, the Salvation Army. We t...
BEVERLY MILLER People need to continue to call the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, ... The support we have receiv...
KEN OLSON This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley ...
JOHN SCALZI One fourth of the money stays here in Zanesville, going to Christ Table and the Salvation Army. The ...
BETTY ANDERSON It's a project being run by the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers to install new security systems at th...
IAN MICHAELS They know what a red kettle means to people. People know that a Salvation Army kettle is a pretty sa...
ANNETTE BAUER Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean...
COLEMAN COX The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
JOHN LITHGOW How people started to disappear??
It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
DEYTH BANGER The idea is to collect car seats or to take donations for car seats. We're just not limiting to gett...
AL CADENAS Only the gospel of salvation can save a soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The knowledge of salvation alone can save your soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A celebrity can help put a spotlight on a problem, a crisis and a need, ... I'll be sending a check ...
SELA WARD Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B.R. AMBEDKAR If you want to save the humankind,
you should first take care of Nature.
It's the legacy ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Time heals nothing; it merely manages the hurt through a lens of unreality. The only salvation is to...
RJ BLIZZARD Salvation is sanctification of soul by the Blessed Saviour.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA page after page of (allegations of) misconduct by the Army investigators, but because it didn't dire...
ARMY SGT. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There are people all over the place. There are people in the city at the Salvation Army, people at C...
LARRY INABNIT I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND Even with the rapid and generous support from the American public and neighboring countries, a Commu...
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DARON MALAKIAN By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
STEVIE NICKS A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
ERNIE FLETCHER I’m fucking demanding, and you should know that if you ever feel like experimenting and ask me for...
TAYLOR V. DONOVAN An idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT An idea is salvation by imagination
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LARYL MORRISON But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief...
ROBERT M. PRICE Don’t just save yourself alone, also bring salvation the people around you
SUNDAY ADELAJA The Salvation Army is preparing to respond to two of the largest natural disasters in our nation's h...
GEORGE HOOD The army teaches boys to think like men.
ELVIS PRESLEY I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha...
JOHN MASEFIELD We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.
PARUL WADHWA I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.
GEORG RAUCH By receiving salvation, we receive God’s love.
SUNDAY ADELAJA They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an a...
ROMAN PAYNE You're the one who may die," the alchemist said. "I already know how to turn myself into the wind.
THE ALCHEMIST BY PAULO COELHO I'll tell you what God did do. He sent Jesus to die on the cross so you could be saved. To forgive y...
J.E.B. SPREDEMANN The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.
NUNO ROQUE The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.
MARTY RUBIN Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. ...
ROBERT A. COOK An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass
GEORGE WASHINGTON Like an army defeated/ The snow hath retreated.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I like the Army (planes) best, ... They're cool.
ERIK NIELSEN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer.
UNKNOWN Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.
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H. L. MENCKEN We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
H. L. MENCKEN No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a c...
H. L. MENCKEN School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of du...
H. L. MENCKEN Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. MENCKEN The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many in...
H. L. MENCKEN The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. B...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the ...
H. L. MENCKEN It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. MENCKEN Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
H. L. MENCKEN A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice s...
H. L. MENCKEN One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will...
H. L. MENCKEN The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
H. L. MENCKEN Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her hea...
H. L. MENCKEN A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regar...
H. L. MENCKEN Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, th...
H. L. MENCKEN Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. MENCKEN Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
H. L. MENCKEN Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
H. L. MENCKEN It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards ce...
H. L. MENCKEN To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better...
H. L. MENCKEN The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. MENCKEN Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
H. L. MENCKEN The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act...
H. L. MENCKEN Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are ...
H. L. MENCKEN Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he...
H. L. MENCKEN The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is t...
H. L. MENCKEN Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in l...
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