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"Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas."
"The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that."
"It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity."
"The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving."
"What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves."
"We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other."
"For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day."
"My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs."
"Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound."
"When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell."
"Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away."
"If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity."
"If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die."
"Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen."
"People will pay exactly what things are worth give or take a few bucks. You might pay a few bucks more if you like the dealer and think the dealer will take care of you, but most people are going to the internet and don't care about that. I don't think that hard earned money is given away."
"When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates."
"We believe we can dramatically improve the way Medicaid works by giving governors more control and flexibility to innovate to make it work for people with low income because it`s not working in so many states right now."
"Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis."
"I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it."
"We think the administration can give us a lot of regulatory flexibility which will bring more insurers in the marketplace, which means more competition, more choice which drives down costs, so that discretion can work in a good way or it could work in a bad way."
