"The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them."
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"The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration."
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"The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves."
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"Love goes unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it."
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"How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?"
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"The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions."
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"It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others."
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"Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention."
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"Give yourself a gift: the present moment."
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"You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you."
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"I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass."
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"The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money."
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"If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days."
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"It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."
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"Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get."
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"Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist."
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"A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy."
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"Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two.""
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"If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves."
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"No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself."
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