"It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job."
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"In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives."
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"I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished"
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"In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know."
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"Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo."
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"Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return."
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"I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed."
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"If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student."
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"The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the"
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"I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence."
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"Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise."
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"My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score."
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"We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat."
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"Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time."
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"Give me a world, you have taken the world I was."
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"The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser. That's not what it's all about. It's to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take."
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"I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence."
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"For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give."
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"When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne"
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"The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment."
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