"Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected."
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"Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses."
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"THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?"
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"The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth."
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"Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds."
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"One can give advice comfortably from a safe port."
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"What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs."
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"I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing."
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"Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas."
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"Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once."
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"Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds - and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas."
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"We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area."
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"You say their stories, it is gift they give you."
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"I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift."
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"Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving."
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"They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
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"As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power."
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"Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly."
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"God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions."
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"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational."
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