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If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I sha...

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Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but th...

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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised,...

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as toug...

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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't...

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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even t...

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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this ...

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I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas ...

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The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I t...

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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness...

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I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their bran...

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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings...

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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they dese...

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In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through hi...

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There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not ...

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For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymit...

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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and ...

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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at...

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I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to...

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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need...

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Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoev...

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Mother TeresaThe Love of Christ: Spiritual Counsels

I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrat...

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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to c...

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There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribut...

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Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly ...

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As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the be...

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Oswald ChambersA New Testament Walk with Oswald Chambers

God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hear...

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Oswald ChambersBiblical Psychology: Christ-Centered Solutions for Daily Problems

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is givin...

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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transfor...

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their ti...

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Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my ...

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There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune...

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Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery ...

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The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they’re dimmed and blighted. Today, love is j...

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Robert GravesConversations with Robert Graves

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long ...

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I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but ...

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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going t...

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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by sp...

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I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he...

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Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to...

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Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

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Shane ClaiborneRed Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guita...

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The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

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Stephen R. DonaldsonThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify qui...

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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less mo...

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Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the ...

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Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue pa...

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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not ...

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Truman CapoteA Christmas Memory

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses....

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Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one...

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Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Another decent possibility my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a gift…They assume—and this...

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Wendell BerryWhat Are People For?

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional ...

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General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.

As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accid...

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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t...

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