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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the wri...

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It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slightly...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it ...

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You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life.

There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind the...

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The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive...

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My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...

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Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cu...

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Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wan...

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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift ...

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I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...

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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember,...

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Outside the Apothecary, Hagrid checked Harry's list again. 'Just yer wand left -- oh yeah, an I stil...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...

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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

And you, Ring-bearer,’ she said, turning to Frodo. ‘I come to you last who are not last in my though...

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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack...

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We cannot ignore our gift of the future.

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Jimmy CarterJust Peace: A Message of Hope

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave i...

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Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all thin...

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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man...

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Josef PieperLeisure: The Basis Of Culture

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own ...

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You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be l...

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When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a ...

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We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift ...

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I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was ...

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We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make ou...

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Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...

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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reas...

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...

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I stood like Adam in his lonely gardenOn that first morning, shaken out of sleep,Rubbing his eyes, l...

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GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

[on his satisfaction as an artist] In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpe...

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You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual abou...

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It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's ...

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I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...

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My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared...

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When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the the...

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Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the man...

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When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.

Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A g...

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Paulo CoelhoEleven Minutes

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affecti...

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while ...

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God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christm...

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...

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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand ...

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Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and peopl...

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Radhanath SwamiThe Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose of Christmas

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyon...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous I don...

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My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And w...

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Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I f...

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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a prec...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Give an inch he'll take an ell.

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior th...

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery...

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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation ...

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With eye and hand and breath and will.

I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity When I give I give myself.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. ...

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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to...

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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandi...

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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...

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Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide