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"One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters."
"Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all."
"Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery."
"Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago."
"When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves."
"When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale."
"Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama."
"The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development"
"A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering."
"If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people."
"Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own."
"Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it."
"Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace."
"I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either."
"There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—"
"Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life."
"Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen"
"I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now."
"We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself."
"The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate."
