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Dec 9, 2025
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What are documented quotes by Mother Teresa on helping the poor?

Mother Teresa repeatedly framed poverty as more than lack of food or shelter, calling loneliness, being unwanted and unloved “the most terrible poverty” and “the greatest poverty” . Multiple compendiu...

Nov 24, 2025
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Who originally coined the phrase about 'running out of other people's money'?

Most modern attributions of the line “The problem/the trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” credit Margaret Thatcher; multiple reference and quotation sites an...

Dec 8, 2025

What are classical jurisprudential rulings on non-Muslim 'People of the Book' living under Islamic rule (dhimmi and dhimma)?

Classical Islamic jurisprudence treated Jews and Christians as Ahl al‑Kitāb (“People of the Book”) and gave them a protected-but‑limited status called dhimmī: they were guaranteed security of life, pr...

Nov 22, 2025

What is the definition of democratic socialism in the US context?

Democratic socialism in the U.S. context is broadly defined as a political current that seeks a democratically run, socially owned economy rather than one primarily organized for private profit (DSA d...

Nov 15, 2025

What is the earliest known source of the quote about running out of other people's money?

The commonly quoted line “The problem/the trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” is most widely attributed to Margaret Thatcher and appears in contemporary coll...