"It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race."
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"We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless."
"The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you."
"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."
"I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it."
"Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here."
"I am yours. Don't give myself back to me."
"True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower."
"You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action."
"Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability."
"He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."
"The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another."
"Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can."
"The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others."
"First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition."
"Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively."
"Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!"
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?"
"Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage."
"Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work."