"It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal."
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"I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!"
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"Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work."
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"No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances."
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"We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer."
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"One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave."
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"we give each other a smile with a future in it"
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"On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it."
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"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
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"Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging."
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"I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?"
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"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."
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"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
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"Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive."
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"Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do."
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"It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand."
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"And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it."
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"That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that."
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"If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?"
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"Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us."
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