"I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages."
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"The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity."
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"I want to be able to fight for what I'm worth, not someone else's generosity."
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"A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little."
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"Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months."
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"The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity."
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"Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over."
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"To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets."
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"O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!"
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"Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so."
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"An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share."
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"To be here is immense."
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"You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity."
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"The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before."
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"A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's."
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"If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable."
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"There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
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"Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions."
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"Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful."
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"Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love."
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