"God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us"
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"To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing."
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"Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give."
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"Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties"
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"Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune."
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"With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es.""
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"Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable."
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"John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time."
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"We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us."
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"The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done."
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"My own perception was that although it kind of sucks to be stuck in a contract you signed a long time ago, when you're having success, it gives you some leverage."
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"You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair."
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"Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night."
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"Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God."
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"When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning."
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"No one cares about it more than you. Give it the attention it needs."
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"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another."
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"Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly."
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"I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you."
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"I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living."
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