"All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented."
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"I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them."
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"It's not enough to raise awareness. You have to give people solutions, and you have to invite them to get involved in whatever way they can, whether that's doing volunteer work or taking a portion of their salary and figuring out where they want that money to go. You have to find ways to inspire people to get involved."
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"In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant."
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"I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees."
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"There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that Snorkel"
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"Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."
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"If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice."
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"Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself."
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"That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices."
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"You get from the world what you give to the world."
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"Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time."
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"Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein."
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"Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home."
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"We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give."
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"I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter."
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"I do meet people from my act from time to time, They give me a little flicker of worry - 'Have I been unfair?' But I'm usually talking about a greater narrative or a scene. I'm not just destroying them personally, The Cheryl Cole bit isn't about Cheryl Cole so much as our tendency as a celebrity-consuming culture to put people on a pedestal just for what they look like. It's about us and how quickly we shift in terms of approval or disapproval."
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"...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion."
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"I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away."
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"Give full attention and devotion to each act."
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