"I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours."
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"My view is my entire life has been shaped by giving when I didn't have it. Some idiot who's wealthy and doesn't give, they'll rot in their own selfishness. I'm not worried about them. What I'm really interested in is the day-to-day person, human beings who want to go to another level of their life."
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"I'm very giving. Even if it's for nonsense, I'll give it to you."
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"Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect."
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"A certain giving up of control is good for the soul."
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"I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it doesn't work out, or if they don't follow your advice, somehow you're on the hook for it."
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"When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way."
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"It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two."
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"The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."
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"Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view."
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"would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."
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"It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have."
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"if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight"
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"As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others."
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"Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city."
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"I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?"
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"Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'"
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"Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend."
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"It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it."
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"Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another."
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