"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us."
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"America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. If you've had a bumper crop, you don't owe me triple tithes. And if you've had no crops at all, you don't owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it."
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"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
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"Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission."
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"It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place."
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"The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to."
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"The object of Art is to give life a shape."
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"While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table."
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"We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation."
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"By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well."
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"The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being."
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"When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading."
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"Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind."
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"Give me a scotch, I'm starving."
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"If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money."
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"I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers."
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"Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different."
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"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example."
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"Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare."
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"Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown."
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