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"Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine."
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"The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver."
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"Happiness never decreased by being shared."
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"Our generosity never should exceed our abilities."
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"On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones."
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"[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion"."
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"With wisdom we shall learn liberality."
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"I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that."
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"Giving is the business of the rich."
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"My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity."
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"Every single human being on this earth make a difference on this planet earth but each one of us make a different contribution and it will be a better contribution when we have more gratitude and more generosity, when we love more."
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"Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone."
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"We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity."
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"...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve."
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"Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil."
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"The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated."
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"The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world."
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"Your generosity is more important than your perfection."
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"Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery."
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