"If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?"
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"Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable."
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"Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom."
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"What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao."
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"All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth."
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"Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is."
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"When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give."
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"There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome."
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"Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!"
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"My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness."
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"Never lie under any circumstances."
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"O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise."
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"It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts."
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"Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame."
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"Generosity should never exceed ability."
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"Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower."
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"Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness."
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"For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all."
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"Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality."
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"Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere."
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