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Paul Ryan Politician
Giving

"We`re not going to end the Medicaid. We`re going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work."

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Paul Ryan Politician
Giving

"If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy. That`s how you take power and money out of Washington and give it back to the people and we are so excited. We have a president [Donald Trump] that is here to work with us in doing that."

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Paula Cole Singer-Songwriter
Giving

"I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
Giving

"This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
Giving

"Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?"

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Paulo Coelho Writer
Giving

"Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
Giving

"If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them."

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Pele Professional Footballer
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"He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho)"

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"Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success."

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Pete Carroll Football Coach
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"Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves."

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