"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
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"Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability."
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"Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself."
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"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
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"If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world."
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"You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion"
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"We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct."
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"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."
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"I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes."
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"The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent."
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"Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you."
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"Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator"
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"Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born."
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"I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir."
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"I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before."
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"It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind."
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"Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly to reappear, though it would be quite impossible to give definitions by which each group could be distinguished from other groups, as all would blend together by steps as fine as those between the finest existing varieties, nevertheless a natural classification, or at least a natural arrangement, would be possible."
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"Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead."
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"As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it."
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"I'm a very hands-on person; I don't just want to give my name to something and not be a big part of it."
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