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Letter "N" » needy
«I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.»
Author: Jules Feiffer
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deprived, disadvantaged, needy, overused, self-defeating, underprivileged
«Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.»
«If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things, / And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, / Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, / Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.»
«For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.»
«For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.»
«He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.»
«He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.»
«For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.»
«He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill.»
«I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy»
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