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"Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants."
"Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task."
"But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument."
"Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed."
"People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it."
"I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world."
"You give before you get."
"If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket."
"Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take. When you find the things that you love the most and you want to give those away, that's love. It's when you want somebody to be happier than yourself, but then once you make them happy, it makes you happier."
"Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future."
"Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!"
"There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh."
"I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care."
"[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many."
"Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks."
"The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us."
"We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all"
"Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice"
"I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had."
"It's all about who you surround yourself with. You have to be comfortable with yourself and have friends who accept you for who you are. Also, do something that you're passionate about. When you find out what you're good at and you do it, that gives you confidence."
