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  • A study of current giving trends by Dogpile found that Americans who typically give to charites are cutting back by half; it says animal charities will be among the hardest hit.

    Financial crisis to hurt pets; Dogpile.com steps in 2008

  • Vaet was mourned in numerous elegies, one of which, Defunctum charites Vaetem, was set by his pupil Jacob Regnart, and other composers including Jacob Handl, Antonius Galli and Johannes de Cleve expressed their esteem by writing parody works based on his motets.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Yet they are happy to pour public money into fake charites campagning against the demon drink, as for the taxes as covered before they are not going to lower them.

    Badger haired sockpuppet Chancellor has closed 2000pubs. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • Although I support gayness and all related charites.

    In the spirit of Oprah, I, also, am not gay | EW.com 2006

  • And this is the moral of placing the Temple of the Graces ([Greek: charites]) in the public streets; to impress the notion that there may be requital, this being peculiar to [Greek: charis] because a man ought to requite with a good turn the man who has done him a favour and then to become himself the originator of another [Greek: charis], by doing him a favour.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • On dirait que je veux faire le genereux et le bon philosophe, mais je ne suis que humain, et mes charites sont la plus agreable depense de mes voyages.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • On dirait que je veux faire le genereux et le bon philosophe, mais je ne suis que humain, et mes charites sont la plus agreable depense de mes voyages.

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • Dieu, et tous autres bons offices de leurs charites, comme nous les avons deja abondamment experimentes, dont nous les remerc, ions avec toute l'humilite, qui nous est possible, et suplions de tout notre coeur le Seigneur qu'il en soit luy meme le remunerateur, versant sur elles les plus precieuses benedictions de sa grace et de sa gloire, et en cette vie, et en celle qui est ` a venir.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Cui formam pulcherrimam, charites tribuere decoram

    The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829

  • Mental health charites have never been sexy, But look what the lovely Sir Brian Rix done for MIND.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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