"Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals."
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"So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite."
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"Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity."
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"The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most."
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"In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage."
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"Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't."
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"I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money."
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"Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you."
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"You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences."
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"All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original."
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"Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it."
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"Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth."
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"They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me."
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"There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone."
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"The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign"
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"Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead"
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"The only deadline is the one I give myself."
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"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
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"And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles."
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"You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root."
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