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I thought... I thought you might..." "Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving a...

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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam ...

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They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath l...

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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am th...

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Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & ...

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Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of mira...

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William JoyceThe Sandman and the War of Dreams

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not a...

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I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time i...

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Íngrid BetancourtEven Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge...

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Practically every mental health care practitioner, from the most erudite psychoanalysts to untrained...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

If you're thinking, 'Great! I just need to be a superhero to fight perfectionism,' I understand. Cou...

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Peter, Adam's Son," said Father Christmas."Here, sir," said Peter."These are your presents," was the...

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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gift...

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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization t...

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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon cas...

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H. G. WellsThe Outline of History

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and ap...

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...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the ...

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In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an obj...

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Jean BaudrillardFor a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign

Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

gifts — that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.

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Jeanette WintersonChristmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money — it will never make you enough money. And don’t mak...

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I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getti...

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Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his poc...

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It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

If we're talented at music, that talent is of god.  If something makes our heart sing, that's god's ...

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Marianne WilliamsonA Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then...

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Martin LutherLuther's Works Lectures on Galatians/Chapters 5-6 Chapters 1-6

That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuin...

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My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, whic...

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Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

...crossed the room to where a selection of implements was arranged on a table top. These could have...

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy s...

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Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher e...

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One of the greatest gifts you can give isyour undivided attention.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assuranc...

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray o...

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray o...

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Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor...

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The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards,...

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If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted ...

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