"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
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"If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions."
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"It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting."
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"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
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"Don't leave this world without giving it your all."
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"There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal."
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"Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security."
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"Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas."
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"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."
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"Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money."
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"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself."
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"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years."
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"There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't."
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"To be loved, we have to love ourselves. Only when we love ourselves do we have enough love to give away. By giving love we then receive love."
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"This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose."
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"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."
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"Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!"
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"You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river's flow!"
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
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"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known."
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