"Giving is the highest expression of potency."
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"When people show me pictures of their kids, it's okay. But when I give them a picture of me, to show to their kids, I'm weird. What kind of one way street is that?"
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"As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely."
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"We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us."
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"The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way."
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"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
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"Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll."
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"We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it."
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"Let's all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country. I see a vision. A glorious vision. A united people, marching forward shoulder to shoulder, giving their all for the common good, working while I whistle."
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"What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future."
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"Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!"
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"I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for."
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"Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person."
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"The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die."
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"Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form...without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death...the truth is the light and light is the truth."
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"Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love."
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"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act."
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"We only have what we give."
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"The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential"
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"Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth."
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