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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their ti...

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Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my ...

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There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune...

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Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery ...

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The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they’re dimmed and blighted. Today, love is j...

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Robert GravesConversations with Robert Graves

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long ...

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I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but ...

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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going t...

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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by sp...

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I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he...

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Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to...

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Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

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Shane ClaiborneRed Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guita...

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The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

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Stephen R. DonaldsonThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify qui...

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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less mo...

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Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the ...

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Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue pa...

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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not ...

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Truman CapoteA Christmas Memory

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses....

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Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one...

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

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

Another decent possibility my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a gift…They assume—and this...

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Wendell BerryWhat Are People For?

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional ...

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General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.

As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accid...

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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t...

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​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that wil...

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Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...

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There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he ke...

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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first plac...

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the w...

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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You hav...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.

Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything ...

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Good things when short are twice as good.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted...

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While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving int...

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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise ul...

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For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge...

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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the othe...

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The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love.

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in t...

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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of g...

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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know abou...

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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in ...

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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attac...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....

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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind