"How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?"
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"Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge."
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"Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . ."
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"The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us."
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"Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness"
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"
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"It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine."
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"Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance."
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"The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship."
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"Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective."
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"Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions."
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"You have to take power. No one gives it."
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"Know your gifts and share them."
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"Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."
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"Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you."
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"The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life."
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"There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind."
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"If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick."
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"If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have."
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"Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength."
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