"The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form."
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"Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days."
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"A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her"
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"The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything."
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"Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside."
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"To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer."
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"One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy."
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"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving."
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"The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness."
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"It is better to give than receive- especially advice."
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"Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is."
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"Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life."
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"Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet?"
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"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
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"Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime."
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"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."
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"I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it."
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"If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease."
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"God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe."
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"We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished."
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