"I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out."
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"Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything"
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"Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation."
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"Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it."
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"Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends."
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"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away."
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"Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always."
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"We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have."
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"God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?"
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"I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings"
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"If life gives you limes, make margaritas."
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"God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go."
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"I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way."
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"Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you."
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"Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love]."
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"If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless."
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"I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave."
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"Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold."
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"...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence."
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"The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you."
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