"Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return."
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"I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return."
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"What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future."
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"I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return."
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"We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return."
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"He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return."
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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return."
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"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size"
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"An education is the investment with the greatest returns."
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"Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does."
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"To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks."
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"As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow."
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"Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist."
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"Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap."
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"Activity is the enemy of investment returns."
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"There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return."
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"The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources."
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"Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways."
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"Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator."
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"I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’."
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